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Crimes Act 1900
224Power to conduct ordinary search of arrested person
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224 Power to conduct ordinary search of arrested person
(1) If a police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person who
has been arrested is carrying—
(b) a seizable item;
the police officer may conduct an ordinary search of the person at or
soon after the time of arrest, and seize any such thing found as a result
of the search.
(2) The police officer may arrange for another police officer to conduct
the ordinary search if, having regard to section 240 (Conduct of
ordinary searches and frisk searches), the officer considers that it
would be more appropriate for the other officer to conduct the frisk
search.
(3) The other police officer is authorised—
(a) to conduct the ordinary search; and
(b) to seize anything mentioned in subsection (1) found as a result
of the search.