LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 50 Search of persons pursuant to warrant

LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 50

50 Search of persons pursuant to warrant

(cf Search Warrants Act 1985 , s 8, former LEPRA, s 50)

A person executing a search warrant issued under this Division may search any person found in or on the premises whom the person executing the warrant reasonably suspects of having a thing mentioned in the warrant.

Notes :

1 Under sections 99 and 100 a police officer or other person may arrest and take before an authorised officer to be dealt with according to law any person found in or on the premises whom the police officer or other person suspects on reasonable grounds of having committed an offence.

2 Division 4 of Part 4 contains provisions generally applicable to searches of persons.