Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A police officer may:
(a) search a person for tainted property; and
(b) seize any property found in the course of the search that the police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, to be tainted property;
but only if the search or seizure, as the case requires, is made:
(c) with the consent of the person;
(d) under a warrant issued under section 36; or
(e) under section 38.
(2) A police officer may:
(a) enter upon land, or upon or into premises;
(b) search the land or premises for tainted property; and
(c) seize any property found in the course of the search that the police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, to be tainted property;
but only if the entry, search or seizure, as the case requires, is made:
(d) with the consent of the occupier of the land or premises;
(e) under a warrant issued under section 36; or
(f) under section 38.
(2A) A police officer is not empowered to do anything under this section after the commencement of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 unless it is done under a warrant issued under section 36 of this Act for which an application was made under that section before that commencement.
(3) Where a police officer may search a person under this Division, the police officer may also search:
(a) the clothing that is being worn by the person; and
(b) any property in, or apparently in, the person's immediate control.
(4) Nothing in this Division shall be taken to authorise a police officer to carry out a search by way of an examination of a body cavity of a person.