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DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 60E Police may search person under 18 years of age without warrant

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 60E

Police may search person under 18 years of age without warrant

Subject to sections 60G and 60H, a police officer, without warrant, may search a person and any vehicle, package or thing in that person's possession or under his or her control for a volatile substance or an item used to inhale a volatile substance if the police officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person—

        (a)     is under 18 years of age; and

        (b)     has in his or her possession or under his or her control a volatile substance or an item used to inhale a volatile substance; and

        (c)     is inhaling or will inhale a volatile substance.

S. 60F inserted by No. 55/2003 s. 4.