Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00812:section:20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00812
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20
Character Range: 15276–16068

20  Search of persons in or entering prohibited areas
 (1) A Commonwealth officer acting in the course of his or her duty or employment, or a constable, may, without warrant, detain for the purpose of search, and search, a person in the neighbourhood of, entering, seeking to enter, being within, leaving or seeking to leave a prohibited area, and any bag or other article in the possession of the person.
 (2) A person conducting a search pursuant to subsection (1) may seize anything which appears to that person to have been made, obtained, collected, recorded, possessed or used in contravention of this Act or which that person has reasonable ground for believing to be evidence of an offence against this Act.
 (3) A female shall not be searched under this section except by a female.