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Parliament Act 2025

Parliamentary security - Powers and duties of parliamentary security officers - Item handed over gives officer reasonable grounds to believe item may constitute threat to security of parliamentary precincts

177: Duty of parliamentary security officer relating to request to take detected item into temporary custody

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"What a parliamentary security officer must do when asking to hold something temporarily"

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If you are a parliamentary security officer, you must tell someone about certain things when you ask them to leave an item with you. You have to do this at the same time as you make the request, and you can tell them orally or in writing. You need to advise them of the matters specified in section 175(a) to (c) when you ask them to leave the item under section 176(3).

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Powers and duties of parliamentary security officers: Item handed over gives officer reasonable grounds to believe item may constitute threat to security of parliamentary precincts

177Duty of parliamentary security officer relating to request to take detected item into temporary custody

  1. A parliamentary security officer who makes a request under section 176(3) (which relates to the power to ask a person to leave an item with an officer) must at the same time advise the person (orally or in writing) of the matters specified in section 175(a) to (c).

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