South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts66R—Power to conduct metal detector searches etc
(1) A police officer
may, for the purpose of detecting the commission of an offence under
section 66Q or Part 3A, carry out a search in relation to—
(a) any
person present within a declared public precinct; and
(b) any
property in the possession of such a person.
(2) The following
provisions apply to a search carried out in accordance with this section:
(a) the
search must, in the first instance, be a metal detector search;
(b) if
the metal detector search indicates the presence or likely presence of metal,
a police officer may require the person to produce items detected by the metal
detector (and, for the purpose of determining whether or not the person has
produced such items, may conduct further metal detector searches);
(c) if
the person refuses or fails to produce any such item, a police officer may,
for the purpose of identifying the item, conduct a search in relation to the
person or property (which need not be a metal detector search but may be
conducted as if it were a search of a person who is reasonably suspected of
having on or about his or her person an object, possession of which
constitutes an offence).
(3) In this
section—
"metal detector search" means a search conducted—
(a)
using only a metal detector of a kind approved by the Commissioner; and
(b) in
accordance with any directions issued by the Commissioner.