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Act index » Part I - Provisions applicable throughout Victoria » Division 2 - General Offences tending to Personal Injury, or Damage to Property, &c.
22 Entry of police
(1)A police officer may at any time enter into any house building room premises or place which is a public place within the meaning of that interpretation in section 3, notwithstanding that the place be upon private premises, when and so often as he thinks proper for securing the observance of this Act and no such entry shall in any way be deemed a trespass.
S. 22(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 160.10).
(2)Any person who needlessly delays to admit a police officer, whether by day or night, into any house building room premises or place which is a public place as aforesaid shall be guilty of an offence. Penalty: 1 penalty unit.
S. 22(2) amended by Nos 9554 s. 2(2)(Sch. 2 item 316), 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 160.10).