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Confiscation Act 1997
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94 Search of persons under search warrant
S. 94(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 25.14).
(1) A police officer executing a search warrant may, if the search warrant authorises him or her to do so, search any person found in or on the premises whom the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds of having on his or her person property of the kind described in the warrant.
(2) A person must not be searched under this section except by a person of the same sex.
S. 95 amended by No. 63/2003 s. 24(7).