51DPowers relating to means of transport and persons in specified area

51D  Powers relating to means of transport and persons in specified area

 (1) This section applies if a member of the Defence Force who is being utilised under a call out order believes on reasonable grounds that there is in a specified area:

 (a) a person who is likely to pose a threat to:

 (i) any person’s life, health or safety; or

 (ii) public health or public safety; or

 (b) a person who has in the person’s possession a thing that is likely to:

 (c) a person connected with the domestic violence or threat specified in the order; or

 (d) a thing that is likely to:

 (e) a thing connected with the domestic violence or threat specified in the order.

Powers relating to any means of transport or person, and other general powers

 (2) Any member of the Defence Force who is being utilised under the call out order may do any one or more of the following:

 (a) erect barriers or other structures, at the border of, or in any part of, the specified area;

 (b) stop any person (including a person mentioned in subsection (1)), or means of transport, in the specified area (whether or not barriers were erected);

 (c) direct any person:

 (i) not to enter the specified area; or

 (ii) to leave, or not to leave, the specified area; or

 (iii) to move from a place in the specified area to another place in the specified area; or

 (iv) not to move from a place in the specified area to another place in the specified area;

 (d) direct a person in charge of any means of transport:

 (i) not to bring the means of transport into the specified area; or

 (ii) to take, or not to take, the means of transport out of the specified area; or

 (iii) to take the means of transport from a place in the specified area to another place in the specified area; or

 (iv) not to take the means of transport from a place in the specified area to any other place, or to a specified place, in the specified area;

 (e) if there is no person in charge of a means of transport that is in a specified area—take any action that is reasonable and necessary for either of the following purposes:

 (i) taking the means of transport out of the specified area;

 (ii) taking the means of transport from a place in the specified area to another place in the specified area;

 (f) direct a person in charge of a means of transport not to move the means of transport within the specified area (including by bringing it into or taking it out of that area) unless the person agrees to a member searching: