Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A police officer may:
(a) stop and detain the person for the purpose of conducting a search under paragraph (b); and
(b) conduct one of the following searches for a terrorism related item:
(i) an ordinary search or a frisk search of the person;
(ii) a search of any thing that is, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds to be, under the person's immediate control;
(iii) a search of any vehicle that is operated or occupied by the person;
(iv) a search of any thing that the person has, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has, brought into the Commonwealth place.
Informing a person of a right to make a complaint
(1A) A police officer who stops and detains a person under this section must inform the person of any right the person has to make a complaint to:
(a) the Commonwealth Ombudsman; or
(b) a State or Territory police oversight body;
about the conduct of the police officer in exercising the powers conferred by this section.
(1B) Subsection (1A) does not require a police officer to inform a person of a right if it is not reasonably practicable to do so because of circumstances of urgency.
Conditions relating to conduct of search of person
(2) A police officer who conducts a search of a person under this section must not use more force, or subject the person to greater indignity, than is reasonable and necessary in order to conduct the search.
(3) A person must not be detained under this section for longer than is reasonably necessary for a search to be conducted under this section.
Other conditions relating to conduct of search of person or thing
(4) In searching a thing (including a vehicle) under subsection (1), a police officer may use such force as is reasonable and necessary in the circumstances, but must not damage the thing by forcing it, or a part of it, open unless:
(a) the person has been given a reasonable opportunity to open the thing or part of it; or
(b) it is not possible to give that opportunity.