Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if—

a police officer has given a person at a place an official warning for consorting; and

the police officer reasonably suspects the person is consorting at the place with the person stated in the official warning.

The police officer may require the person to leave the place and not return or be within the place within a stated reasonable time of not more than 24 hours.

However, subsection (2) does not apply if requiring the person to leave the place may endanger the safety of the person or someone else.Example of requirement to leave place that may endanger safety—a requirement for a person to leave a vehicle in which recognised offenders are passengers in circumstances in which the person has no access to other transport

A person does not commit an offence against section 791 if—

the person was required to leave a place under subsection (2); and

the court is not satisfied the police officer, at the time of making the requirement, had the power under subsection (1) to make the requirement.