South Australian Consolidated Acts69—Removal from racecourses etc of persons suspected of offences
(1) If any member of
the police force has reasonable grounds for suspecting that on any place upon
which any horse racing, dog racing, foot racing, cycle racing, football match,
cricket match, or any other sport of a kind usually attended by the public, is
then being carried on, or on any other place any person is guilty of, or has
on that day been guilty of, unlawful gaming, that member of the police force
may, without warrant arrest that person and remove him from that place.
(2) No person who has
been so removed from any such place shall, during the day on which he was so
removed, re-enter or be again upon that place, or any place contiguous
thereto.
Maximum penalty: $2 500.
(3) No member of the
police force who has acted bona fide in the intended exercise of the powers
conferred on him by subsection (1) of this section shall be liable to any
proceedings, civil or criminal, in consequence of his having so acted.