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Crimes Act 1900
226Power to conduct search at police station
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226 Power to conduct search at police station
(a) a person has been brought to a police station following arrest for
an offence; and
(b) an ordinary search of the person has not been conducted;
a police officer may conduct an ordinary search of the person.
(a) a person is in lawful custody in a police station; and
(b) a police officer—
(i) of the rank of sergeant or higher; or
(ii) who is for the time being in charge of the police station;
suspects on reasonable grounds that it is prudent to do so to
ascertain whether the person is carrying any evidential material
in relation to any offence or seizable items;
the police officer may cause a frisk search or an ordinary search of
the person to be conducted.
(3) If a person is searched under this section and as a result of the search
is found to be carrying—
(b) a seizable item;
the police officer conducting the search may seize that thing.
(4) If a person is searched under this section, the police officer who
conducts or causes the search to be conducted shall make a record of
the reasons for the search and of the type of search.