New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DRUG AND ALCOHOL TREATMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 48

48 Act does not limit or affect other powers

(1) Nothing in this Act limits or affects any power conferred on a police officer or any other person by or under any other law with respect to stopping, searching or detaining a person (whether or not a dependent person) or taking any such person to any place.

(2) Nothing in this Act prevents an accredited medical practitioner from taking any action that the practitioner thinks fit to protect a dependent person detained in a treatment centre, or any other person in the treatment centre, from serious physical harm.