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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 431
Power to conduct a frisk search of an arrested person
An authorised officer who arrests a person for an offence against this Act or
the regulations, or who is present at such an arrest, may, if the authorised
officer suspects on reasonable grounds that it is prudent to do so in order to
ascertain whether the arrested person is carrying any eligible seizable items:
- (a)
- conduct a frisk search of the arrested person at or soon after the time of
arrest; and
- (b)
- seize any eligible seizable items found as a result of the search.
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