International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995

This section applies if a police officer suspects, on reasonable grounds, that:

evidential material is in or on a conveyance; and

it is necessary to exercise a power under subsection (2) in order to prevent the material from being concealed, lost or destroyed; and

it is necessary to exercise the power without the authority of a search warrant because the circumstances are serious and urgent.

The police officer may:

stop and detain the conveyance; and

search the conveyance, and any container in or on the conveyance, for the material; and

seize the material if he or she finds it there.

If, in the course of searching for the material, the police officer finds other evidential material or a thing relevant to an offence against an Australian law, the police officer may seize that material or thing if he or she suspects, on reasonable grounds, that:

it is necessary to seize it in order to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction; and

it is necessary to seize it without the authority of a search warrant because the circumstances are serious and urgent.

The police officer must exercise his or her powers subject to section 64.