LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 87MA
Power to disperse groups
LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 87MA
Power to disperse groups
87MA Power to disperse groups
(1) If a group of persons are assembled within
an area that is the target of an authorisation, a police officer may give a
direction to those persons, or to any of them, to disperse immediately.
(2)
For the purpose of complying with Part 15, the police officer giving the
direction must inform the person or persons to whom the direction is given
that the direction is given for the purpose of preventing or controlling a
public disorder.
(4) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or
fail to comply with a direction given in accordance with this section.
:
Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.
(5) A direction under this section is to
be given orally and, if given to a group of persons, is to be given in such a
manner as is likely to be audible to all persons in that group, or to as many
of them as practicable.
(6) If a direction under this section is given to a
group of persons, it is not necessary for the police officer to repeat the
direction, or to repeat the information and warning required to be given under
Part 15, to each person in the group.
(7) However, just because the
police officer is not required to repeat any such direction, information or
warning does not in itself give rise to any presumption that each person in
the group has received the direction, information or warning.
