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Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000
sec.425Requirements before excluding persons unreasonably interfering with questioning
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### sec.425 Requirements before excluding persons unreasonably interfering with questioning
This section applies if a police officer considers a friend, relative, lawyer, support person present during the questioning of a relevant person is unreasonably interfering with the questioning.
Before excluding the person from being present during questioning, the police officer must—
warn the person not to interfere with the questioning; and
give the person 1 further opportunity to stop unreasonably interfering with the questioning; and
tell the person that the person may be excluded from being present during the questioning if the person continues to interfere unreasonably with the questioning.
s 425 (prev s 219) renum 2000 No. 22 s 13
amd 2024 No. 24 s 57 s ch 1 pt 2
(sec.425-ssec.1) This section applies if a police officer considers a friend, relative, lawyer, support person present during the questioning of a relevant person is unreasonably interfering with the questioning.
(sec.425-ssec.2) Before excluding the person from being present during questioning, the police officer must— warn the person not to interfere with the questioning; and give the person 1 further opportunity to stop unreasonably interfering with the questioning; and tell the person that the person may be excluded from being present during the questioning if the person continues to interfere unreasonably with the questioning.
- (a) warn the person not to interfere with the questioning; and
- (b) give the person 1 further opportunity to stop unreasonably interfering with the questioning; and
- (c) tell the person that the person may be excluded from being present during the questioning if the person continues to interfere unreasonably with the questioning.