Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 No 103
Current version for 20 January 2013 to date (accessed 25 May 2013 at 17:28)

145   Meaning of “general drug detection”

(cf Police Powers (Drug Detection Dogs) Act 2001, s 5)

For the purposes of this Division:

general drug detection is the detection of prohibited drugs or plants in the possession or control of a person, except during a search of a person that is carried out after a police officer reasonably suspects that the person is committing a drug offence.

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