New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 28

28 Power to confiscate knives or other dangerous implements

(cf Summary Offences Act 1988 , s 28B)

(1) A police officer may, in a public place or school:

(a) take possession of anything that the police officer has reasonable grounds to suspect is a dangerous implement that is unlawfully in a person’s custody, and

(b) confiscate the thing.

(2) Any such confiscated thing is to be dealt with in accordance with Division 1 of Part 17.

(3) The power conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised whether or not the police officer requests the person to produce the thing under section 26.