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Crimes Act 1961

Procedure - General power to stop vehicles to exercise statutory search powers

314A: Statutory search power

You could also call this:

“A rule that allowed police to search cars has been removed from the law.”

This section of the law has been removed. It used to talk about a special power that allowed searches, but it’s not part of the law anymore. The government took it out of the Crimes Act 1961 on 1 October 2012. If you want to know more about why this change happened, you can look at section 325(6) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.

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Part 12 Procedure
General power to stop vehicles to exercise statutory search powers

314AStatutory search power (Repealed)

    Notes
    • Section 314A: repealed, on , by section 325(6) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).