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COURT SECURITY ACT 2013 - SECT 22

General directions power

  (1)   A security officer or an authorised court officer may direct a person on court premises to do a thing, or not to do a thing, if the officer reasonably believes that the person:

  (a)   is harassing or intimidating another person; or

  (b)   is causing a reasonable apprehension of either violence to a person on the court premises or damage to the court premises; or

  (c)   is significantly disrupting proceedings of a court, administration of a court or lawful activities on the court premises; or

  (d)   has committed, is likely to commit or intends to commit an offence on or in relation to the court premises.

  (2)   A direction under subsection   (1) must be reasonable in the circumstances for the purpose of:

  (a)   reducing or eliminating the harassment, the intimidation, the apprehension of violence or damage or the disruption; or

  (b)   dealing with or preventing the offence.



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