Removal from racecourses etc of persons suspected of offences
69 Removal from racecourses etc of persons suspected of offences
If any police officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that on any place on which any horse racing, dog racing, foot racing, cycle racing, football match, cricket match, or any other sport of a kind usually attended by the public, is then being carried on, or on any other place any person is guilty of, or has on that day been guilty of, unlawful gaming, that police officer may, without warrant arrest that person and remove him or her from that place.
A person who has been so removed from any such place must not, during the day on which he or she was so removed, re-enter or be again on that place, or any place contiguous to that place. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $2 500.
No police officer who has acted bona fide in the intended exercise of the powers conferred on the officer by subsection (1) will be liable to any proceedings, civil or criminal, in consequence of having so acted.
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