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South Australia
Controlled Substances (Drug Offences) Amendment
Bill 2020
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Controlled
Substances Act 1984
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Controlled
Substances Act 1984
3Amendment of section 52—Power to search,
seize etc
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Controlled Substances (Drug Offences)
Amendment Act 2020.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Controlled Substances
Act 1984
3—Amendment
of section 52—Power to search, seize etc
Section 52—after subsection (9) insert:
(9a) Without limiting the circumstances in which an authorised officer who
is a police officer may form a reasonable suspicion for the purposes of
subsection (6) or (9), if the officer sees a person or vehicle entering or
leaving premises that the officer reasonably suspects are used for the
manufacture, distribution or storage of a substance, and possession of the
substance by a person would contravene this Act, it is reasonable for the
officer to suspect that the person has the substance in the person's possession
or that the substance is in the vehicle or a vehicle in which the person is
present after leaving the premises.