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116JReasonable grounds for search without warrant on indication
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116J Reasonable grounds for search without warrant on indication
of electronic drug detection system
(1) Subsection (2) applies if, before exercising a power under an Act to
search a person or place without a warrant, a member is required to
form a suspicion on reasonable grounds that:
(a) the person is carrying or has in the person's possession, or is
in control of, a dangerous substance; or
(b) there is something at the place (including in a vehicle at a
public place) that may be a dangerous substance.
(2) There are reasonable grounds for the suspicion if an electronic drug
detection system indicates the presence of a dangerous substance:
(a) on the person or on, or in, a thing in the person's immediate
control; or
(b) on or in a thing, not in the person's immediate control but
which the member suspects on reasonable grounds is
connected with the person, that is at the place where the
detection is being carried out; or
(c) at the place.
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dangerous substance means any of the following:
(a) a dangerous drug;
(b) a precursor;
(c) a substance prescribed by regulation to be a dangerous
substance.
electronic drug detection system, see section 19U of the Misuse