Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 23

23 .         Consent to search or procedure, presumption against and withdrawal of

        (1)         If a person who is requested under this Act to consent to —

            (a)         a search of a place that he or she occupies; or

            (b)         undergoing a basic search or a strip search; or

            (c)         undergoing a forensic procedure,

                does not reply, or consents but resists the carrying out of the search or procedure, he or she is to be taken to have not consented.

        (2)         A person who consents to a search or procedure referred to in subsection (1) may withdraw his or her consent at any time before the search or procedure is completed by informing an officer or person who is doing it.