New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 142

142 Search and arrest of persons pursuant to search warrant

(cf Police Powers (Drug Premises) Act 2001 , s 7)

(1) A police officer executing a search warrant issued under this Division may--

(a) search any person on the premises, and

(b) arrest or otherwise proceed against any person on the premises, and

(c) seize and detain any firearm or other thing found on the premises that the police officer has reasonable grounds for believing is connected with an offence, and

(d) without limiting paragraph (c), seize any prohibited drug, prohibited plant and money found on the premises and any syringe or other thing that is kept or used in connection with, or that relates to, any activity prohibited by or under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 , and

(e) require any person on the premises to disclose his or her identity.

(2) The power conferred by subsection (1) to seize and detain a thing includes--

(a) power to remove the thing from the premises where it is found, and

(b) power to guard the thing in or on those premises.