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314B: General power to stop vehicles
or “Police could stop cars to search them, but this rule doesn't exist anymore.”
You could also call this:

“Extra things police can do when they stop a car to search it, but this rule doesn't work anymore.”

This section of the law has been removed. It used to be about the powers that came with stopping vehicles under section 314B, but it no longer exists in the current version of the Crimes Act 1961. The government took it out on 1 October 2012 when they made changes to the law through the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.

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Next up: 314D: Offences relating to stopping vehicles under section 314B

or “This law about getting in trouble for not stopping your car when asked was removed and is no longer used.”
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Part 12 Procedure
General power to stop vehicles to exercise statutory search powers

314CPowers incidental to stopping vehicles under section 314B (Repealed)

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    • Section 314C: repealed, on , by section 325(6) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).