Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if the system for the security of a state building involves the use of 1 or more of the following electronic screening devices—

a walk-through detector;

an X-ray machine;

a hand held scanner.

A police officer or protective services officer may ask an entrant to the state building to do 1 or more of the following things—

to walk through a walk-through detector;

to pass the entrant’s belongings through an X-ray machine;

to allow the officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant;

to allow the officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant’s belongings.