Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if—

a police officer or protective services officer reasonably considers it necessary for the security of a state building to make a request under subsection (2) in relation to an entrant to the state building, or the entrant’s belongings, whether or not the entrant or belongings have been subjected to electronic screening; and

the officer tells the entrant the reasons for making the request.

The police officer or protective services officer may ask the entrant to do 1 or more of the following things—

allow the officer to inspect the entrant’s belongings;

remove 1 or more outer garments worn by the entrant as specified by the officer and allow the officer to inspect the garments;

remove all articles from the entrant’s clothing and allow the officer to inspect them;

open an article for inspection and allow the officer to inspect it;

allow the officer, or another adult assisting the officer, to touch a garment the entrant is wearing for the purpose of the officer inspecting the entrant’s belongings;

open a vehicle or a part of it for inspection and allow the officer to inspect it;

remove an article from a vehicle as specified by the officer and allow the officer to inspect it;

move a vehicle to, and park it in, a place specified by the officer;

if the officer reasonably believes a belonging of the entrant is capable of concealing a proscribed thing—deposit the belonging in a place specified by the officer.

In this section—inspect, an article, includes handle the article, open it and examine its contents.