New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TERRORISM (POLICE POWERS) ACT 2002 - SECT 17

17 Power to search persons

(1) A police officer may, without a warrant, stop and search a person, and anything in the possession of or under the control of the person, if:

(a) the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person is the target of an authorisation (or the person is found in suspicious circumstances in the company of the target of the authorisation), or

(b) the person is in or on a vehicle that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds is the target of an authorisation, or

(c) the person is in an area that is the target of an authorisation.

(2) Schedule 1 applies to the search of a person conducted under this section.

Note: Schedule 1 provides for the carrying out of ordinary searches, frisk searches and strip searches. A strip search may not be carried out unless the person is suspected of being the target of an authorisation.

(3) A police officer must not detain a person for any longer than is reasonably necessary for the purpose of conducting a search under this section.