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Police Administration Act 1978
120Power of police to enter place used for entertainment
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120 Power of police to enter place used for entertainment
(1) A member of the Police Force may, without warrant, enter land or
premises:
(a) being used for any show, exhibition, sport, games, contest or
entertainment and to which the public is admitted (whether
admission thereto is obtained by payment of money or
otherwise); or
(b) being used for the purposes of any form of racing.
(2) Where a member of the Police Force has entered land or premises
pursuant to subsection (1) he may order any person who is a
reputed thief or who is disorderly or indecent or who is soliciting for
the purposes of prostitution to leave the land or premises.
(3) If any such person refuses or fails to leave the land or premises on
being ordered by a member of the Police Force to do so, he
commits an offence.
Maximum penalty: 1.7 penalty units.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), a reputed thief is a person who
has on at least 2 occasions in the period of 5 years immediately
preceding the occasion of the exercise of the powers given to the
member by this section, been found guilty of an offence described
in Part VII of the Criminal Code, Part IV of the Criminal Law
Consolidation Act 1876, as in force at any time during that period,
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or any similar offence in any other part of Australia.