Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Commonwealth Games Arrangements Act 2001 - SECT 57AI

Inspection-ticketed venues

57AI. Inspection-ticketed venues



(1) An authorised officer or a member of the police force may-

   (a)  request a person to produce and open for inspection, and search by an
        authorised officer or member of the police force any bag, basket, or
        other receptacle that the person intends to take into or has in a
        ticketed venue;

   (ab) request a person to produce and empty of its contents any bag, basket
        or other receptacle that the person intends to take into or has in a
        ticketed venue;

   (b)  request a person who intends to enter or has entered a ticketed venue
        to turn out that person's pockets;









   (c)  request a person who intends to enter or has entered a ticketed venue-

   (i)  to walk through screening equipment;

   (ii) to allow an authorised officer or a member of the police force to pass
        hand-held screening equipment over or around the person or around
        things in the person's possession;

   (iii) to allow things in the person's possession to pass through screening
        equipment or to be examined by x-ray.

(1A) For the purposes of inspection and search under this section, an
authorised officer or member of the police force may-

   (a)  search through any bag, basket or other receptacle; or

   (b)  search through and move the contents of that bag, basket or other
        receptacle; or

   (c)  search through and move the contents of a person's pockets turned out
        in accordance with subsection (1)(b).

(2) An authorised officer or a member of the police force may direct a person
not to enter a ticketed venue if the person refuses to comply with a request
made under subsection (1).

(3) An authorised officer or a member of the police force may direct a person
who is in a ticketed venue and who refuses to comply with a request under
subsection (1)-

   (a)  to leave the ticketed venue; and

   (b)  not re-enter the ticketed venue for a period of 24 hours.

(4) A person must not, contrary to a direction given by an authorised officer
or a member of the police force under this section-

   (a)  enter, re-enter or remain in a ticketed venue; or

   (b)  attempt to enter, re-enter or remain in a ticketed venue.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(5) In this section-

screening equipment means a metal detector or similar device for detecting
objects or particular substances.

(6) Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 8G or 10 of the
Control of Weapons Act 1990.

Division 3-Miscellaneous enforcement matters