Commonwealth Numbered Acts

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1983 No. 130, 1983 - SECT 72

72. (1) An inspector may-

   (a)  search a person, or the clothing that is being worn by, and property
        in the immediate control of, a person, suspected by him to be carrying
        any thing connected with an offence against this Act; or

   (b)  enter upon any land, or upon or into any premises, vessel, aircraft or
        vehicle, on or in which he believes on reasonable grounds that any
        thing connected with an offence against this Act is situated,
and may seize any such thing that he finds in the course of that search, or
upon the land or in the premises, vessel, aircraft or vehicle, as the case may
be if-

   (c)  the inspector believes on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to
        do so in order to prevent the concealment, loss or destruction of any
        thing connected with an offence against this Act; and

   (d)  the search or entry is made in circumstances of such seriousness and
        urgency as to require and justify immediate search or entry without
        the authority of an order of a court or of a warrant issued under
        this Act.

(2) An inspector who believes on reasonable grounds that a person is, without
reasonable excuse, carrying any thing connected with an offence against
sub-section 11 (1), 65 (2), (4), (10), (11) or (14) or section 76 may-

   (a)  stop the person;

   (b)  search the person, his clothing and any property in his immediate
        control; and

   (c)  seize any such thing found in the course of that search.

(3) An inspector who believes on reasonable grounds that any thing connected
with an offence against sub-section 11 (1), 65 (2), (4), (10), (11) or (14) or
section 76 is upon or in a vessel, aircraft or vehicle, may enter upon or into
the vessel, aircraft or vehicle and seize any such thing found upon or in the
vessel, aircraft or vehicle and may for that purpose stop and search the
vessel, aircraft or vehicle.

(4) Sub-sections 70 (5), (6), (7) and (8) apply in relation to this section in
like manner as they apply in relation to section 70.