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Parliamentary security - Powers and duties of parliamentary security officers - Powers and duty relating to examining and detaining seizing detected items, and process to be followed

172: Power to ask to examine detected items

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"What happens to items found on you during a search at Parliament"

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If you are searched under section 170, a parliamentary security officer may ask you to hand over any items they found. They can only ask you for these items right after the search. If you do not give them the items, the officer must follow the rules in section 172A. If you do give them the items, the officer will look at them. If the items make the officer think you might have done something wrong, or that you might do something wrong, they must follow the rules in sections 172B, 173, or 174. These sections are about keeping you and others safe. The officer will decide which rules to follow based on what they find. They will look at whether the item could be used to hurt someone, or if it is a threat to the parliamentary precincts. The officer must follow the rules to keep everyone safe.

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Part 7Parliamentary security
Powers and duties of parliamentary security officers: Powers and duty relating to examining and detaining seizing detected items, and process to be followed

172Power to ask to examine detected items

  1. A parliamentary security officer may ask a person whose person or property is searched under section 170 to hand over to the officer any item detected during the search so that the officer may examine it.

  2. A parliamentary security officer may exercise the power in subsection (1) immediately after the search but no later.

  3. If the person does not comply with the request, the parliamentary security officer must apply section 172A.

  4. If the person complies with the request and the item handed over gives the parliamentary security officer reasonable grounds to believe the matters specified in—

  5. section 172B (which relates to the officer having reasonable grounds to believe that the person may recently have committed, or may be about to commit, a specified offence), the officer must apply that section; or
    1. section 173 (which relates to the officer having reasonable grounds to believe that the item is capable of being used to commit a violent offence or that it would otherwise be dangerous to allow the person to keep the item), the officer must apply that section; or
      1. section 174 (which relates to the officer having reasonable grounds to believe that the item may constitute a threat to the security of the parliamentary precincts), the officer must apply that section.