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POLICE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1978 - SECT 120

Power of police to enter place used for entertainment

    (1)     A member of the Police Force may, without warrant, enter land or premises:

        (a)     being used for any show, exhibition, sport, games, contest or entertainment and to which the public is admitted (whether admission thereto is obtained by payment of money or otherwise); or

        (b)     being used for the purposes of any form of racing.

    (2)     Where a member of the Police Force has entered land or premises pursuant to subsection (1) he may order any person who is a reputed thief or who is disorderly or indecent or who is soliciting for the purposes of prostitution to leave the land or premises.

    (3)     If any such person refuses or fails to leave the land or premises on being ordered by a member of the Police Force to do so, he commits an offence.

Maximum penalty:     1.7 penalty units.

    (4)     For the purposes of subsection (2), a reputed thief is a person who has on at least 2 occasions in the period of 5 years immediately preceding the occasion of the exercise of the powers given to the member by this section, been found guilty of an offence described in Part VII of the Criminal Code, Part IV of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1876 , as in force at any time during that period, or any similar offence in any other part of Australia.



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