Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if a police officer establishes a missing person scene at a place before obtaining a missing person warrant.

As soon as reasonably practicable after establishing the missing person scene, a police officer must apply under section 179J to a Supreme Court judge or magistrate for a missing person warrant.

Subsection (2) does not apply if the place is a public place, unless the place is a public place only while it is ordinarily open to the public and the occupier of the place requires a police officer at the place to leave the place.