LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 45B
Power to search for and seize things without warrant
LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 45B
Power to search for and seize things without warrant
45B Power to search for and seize things without warrant
(1) A
police officer may, without warrant, stop, search and detain a person,
vehicle, vessel or aircraft if the police officer suspects on reasonable
grounds that the person has in his or her possession or under his or her
control (or that the vehicle, vessel or aircraft contains) anything to which
this Division applies.
(2) A police officer may seize and detain all or part
of a thing found as a result of a search under this section that the
police officer suspects on reasonable grounds is a thing to which this
Division applies.
