Western Australian Current Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 2000 - SECT 25

25 .         Detention, search and seizure without warrant

        (1)         A police officer may without a warrant stop, detain and search anyone whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds to be —

            (a)         committing an offence; or

            (b)         carrying anything that will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence.

        (2)         A police officer may without a warrant stop, detain and search any conveyance where the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that there is —

            (a)         anyone who is committing an offence; or

            (b)         anything that will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence.

        (3)         The power to stop and detain a conveyance includes the power to detain anyone in or on the conveyance for as long as is reasonably necessary to search the conveyance even though, until the conveyance has been searched, the person may not be suspected of anything because of which the person can be detained under subsection (1).

        (4)         A police officer may without a warrant seize anything that the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence.