Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 193

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), if a police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person who is in a public place or school has a knife in his or her possession, the police officer may—

        (a)     conduct a frisk search or an ordinary search of the person; and

        (b)     seize any knife found as a result of the search.

    (2)     A police officer may conduct a search of a person under subsection (1) only if the police officer—

        (a)     provides evidence to the person that he or she is a police officer, unless the police officer is in uniform; and

        (b)     informs the person of the reason for the search.

    (3)     As soon as practicable after a search has been conducted under subsection (1), the police officer who conducted the search shall record the time, location and nature of the search.