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BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 124

Police assistance

S. 124(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 9.2).

    (1)     A municipal building surveyor may request the assistance of a police officer, and a police officer may assist—

        (a)     in evacuating a building, land or place of public entertainment in accordance with an emergency order; or

        (b)     in removing persons from a building, land or place of public entertainment in or on which the municipal building surveyor or any person assisting the building surveyor is carrying out work or taking any action in accordance with an emergency order or building order.

S. 124(2) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 9.2).

    (2)     A police officer may use reasonable force in carrying out a function under subsection (1).



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