LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 21A
Ancillary power to search persons
LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 21A
Ancillary power to search persons
21A Ancillary power to search persons
(1) In conducting a search of a person
under section 21, a police officer may, if the police officer suspects on
reasonable grounds that a thing referred to in section 21(1)(a), (b), (c) or
(d) is concealed in the person's mouth or hair, require the person--
(a) to
open his or her mouth to enable it to be searched, or
(b) to shake, or
otherwise move, his or her hair.
(2) Subsection (1) does not authorise a
police officer to forcibly open a person's mouth.
(3) A person must not,
without reasonable excuse, fail or refuse to comply with a requirement made by
a police officer in accordance with this section.
