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CurrentPower to conduct a frisk search of an arrested person
Volume 3Chapter 6, Part 16 to Chapter 8, Part 23 (sections 391 to 528), Schedules, Endnotes
Chapter 6Administration
Part 17Enforcement
Division 6Arrest and related matters
431 Power to conduct a frisk search of an arrested person
An authorised officer who arrests a person for an offence against an environmental law, or who is present at such an arrest, may, if the authorised officer suspects on reasonable grounds that it is prudent to do so in order to ascertain whether the arrested person is carrying any eligible seizable items:
(a)
conduct a frisk search of the arrested person at or soon after the time of arrest; and
(b)
seize any eligible seizable items found as a result of the search.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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