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Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002
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#### 30 Searches generally
30 Searches generally
> In conducting the search of a person, a police officer may—
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> > (a) quickly run his or her hands over the person’s outer clothing, and
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> > (b) require the person to remove his or her coat or jacket or similar article of clothing and any gloves, shoes, socks and hat (but not, except in the case of a strip search, all of the person’s clothes), and
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> > (c) examine anything in the possession of the person, and
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> > (d) pass an electronic metal detection device over or in close proximity to the person’s outer clothing or anything removed from the person, and
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> > (e) do any other thing authorised by this Act for the purposes of the search.
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> **s 30:** Subst 2014 No 31, Sch 3 \[21\].