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Act index » Part III - Procedure and punishment » Division 1 - Pleading procedure, proof &c. » Subdivision (30) - Apprehension of offenders
459A Entry and search of premises
(1)A police officer may, for the purpose of arresting under section 458 or 459 or any other enactment a person whom he— enter and search any place where the police officer on reasonable grounds believes him to be.
S. 459A(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 36.16).
(a)believes on reasonable grounds—
(i)to have committed in Victoria a serious indictable offence;
(ii)to have committed an offence elsewhere which if committed in Victoria would be a serious indictable offence; or
(iii)to be escaping from legal custody; or
(b)finds committing a serious indictable offence—
(2)In order to enter a place pursuant to subsection (1), a police officer may, if it is necessary to do so, use reasonable force.
S. 459A(2) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 36.16).
(3)In this section serious indictable offence has the same meaning as it has in section 325.