Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00034:section:251
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00034
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 251
Character Range: 403229–404468

251  Searches without warrant in emergency situations
 (1) This section applies if an *authorised officer suspects, on reasonable grounds, that:
 (a) a thing constituting *tainted property or *evidential material is in or on a *conveyance; and
 (b) it is necessary to exercise a power under subsection (2) in order to prevent the thing from being concealed, lost or destroyed; and
 (c) it is necessary to exercise the power without the authority of a *search warrant because the circumstances are serious and urgent.
 (2) The officer may:
 (a) stop and detain the *conveyance; and
 (b) search the conveyance and any container in or on the conveyance, for the thing; and
 (c) seize the thing if he or she finds it there.
 (3) If, in the course of searching for the thing, the officer finds another thing constituting *tainted property or *evidential material, the officer may seize that thing if he or she suspects, on reasonable grounds, that:
 (a) it is necessary to seize it in order to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction; and
 (b) it is necessary to seize it without the authority of a *search warrant because the circumstances are serious and urgent.
 (4) The officer must exercise his or her powers subject to section 252.