This page contains different parts of laws about Police and safety.
80C: Powers and duties of aviation security officers relating to security enhanced areas
80F: Searches of persons refusing consent to be searched
114: Person failing to present and apply for entry permission
285: Power of entry and search at border place
293: Police to have powers of immigration officers
309: Persons liable to arrest and detention
311: Implications of liability to arrest and detention
312: Limited power of detention for up to 4 hours
313: Initial period of detention without warrant
314: Persons arrested and detained pending making of deportation order
327: Duties of detaining officers
328: Additional powers relating to detention by immigration officer
329: Arresting or detaining officer may seek assistance
334: Additional provisions relating to custody in approved premises
335: Delivery of person into custody of immigration officer or police for purposes of deportation
100F: Code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by New Zealand Police
Schedule 1C: Code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by Police
164: Seizure of property not on private land
165: Seizure of property from private land
166: Conditions for exercise of warrant to seize property on private land
169: Powers of arrest, search, and seizure in relation to alcohol bans
170: Conditions relating to power of search
172: Power of entry for enforcement purposes
177: Appointment of enforcement officer
178: Enforcement officers may require certain information
216: Circumstances when court may make removal order
221: Limits to power of entry to enforce compliance
243: Interpretation
314: Prohibition of vehicles and consumption or possession of intoxicating liquor in public place
85: Powers of arrest and seizure of items or substances
86: Arrest of persons delivered to Police
87: Powers of Police
22: Duty to give certain information
323: Compliance with abatement notice
327: Issue and effect of excessive noise direction
334: Application for warrant for entry for search
335: Direction and execution of warrant for entry for search
336: Return of property seized under sections 323 and 328
337: Return of property seized under warrant
466: Exercise of certain powers by Police
382A: Return of property seized under Noise Control Act 1982
17: Interference with scene of accident
18: Inquiries into accidents
147D: Investigator must give notice to occupier of dwellinghouse
157: Measures to avoid immediate danger
372: Issue of infringement notices
30: Arresting the wrong person
31: Arrest by constable pursuant to statutory powers
32: Arrest by constable of person believed to have committed offence
33: Arrest by other officers or persons pursuant to statutory powers
34: Persons assisting constable or officer in arrest
35: Arrest of persons found committing certain crimes
36: Arrest of person believed to be committing crime by night
37: Arrest after commission of certain crimes
38: Arrest during flight
39: Force used in executing process or in arrest
40: Preventing escape or rescue
42: Preventing breach of the peace
43: Suppression of riot
44: Suppression of riot by Police
45: Suppression of riot by persons acting under lawful orders
46: Suppression of riot by persons without orders
55: Defence of dwellinghouse
65: Other enactments not affected
78D: Search without warrant
89: Failure of rioters to disperse
104: Corruption and bribery of law enforcement officer
121: Assisting escape from lawful custody
170: Illegal arrest may be evidence of provocation
192: Aggravated assault
198A: Using any firearm against law enforcement officer, etc
202A: Possession of offensive weapons or disabling substances
202B: Powers in respect of crime against section 202A
216E: Forfeiture
216N: Protection from liability
224: Power of search for goods stolen or unlawfully obtained in transit
225: Power to search vehicles for goods stolen or obtained by crimes involving dishonesty
312B: Application by Police for warrant to intercept private communications
312C: Matters on which Judge must be satisfied in respect of applications
312CA: Application by Police for warrant to intercept private communications in relation to serious violent offences
312CB: Matters on which Judge must be satisfied in respect of applications relating to serious violent offences
312CC: Application by Police for warrant to intercept private communications relating to terrorist offences
312D: Contents and term of warrant
312F: Renewal of warrants
312I: Destruction of irrelevant records made by use of interception device
312Q: Commissioner of Police to give information to Parliament
315: Arrest without warrant
316: Duty of persons arresting
317: Power to enter premises to arrest offender or prevent offence
317A: Power to stop vehicles for purpose of arrest
317AA: Powers incidental to stopping vehicles under section 317A
317AB: Offences relating to stopping vehicles under section 317A
317B: Road blocks
320: Arrest of absconder
320A: Person on bail may be arrested without warrant in certain circumstances
344B: Attendance at identification parade voluntary
Schedule 6: Interception warrant
35: Enforcement officers may require certain information
37: Enforcement officers may seize and impound certain property
41: Protection against claims resulting from seizing or impounding of property under section 37
60: Entry of dwellinghouses
293A: Warrant to enter and search
61A: Search warrant
371C: Conditions of authorisation
314A: Statutory search power
314B: General power to stop vehicles
314C: Powers incidental to stopping vehicles under section 314B
314D: Offences relating to stopping vehicles under section 314B
147A: Criteria for making or continuing bylaws
169A: Proving substance is alcohol in relation to alleged breach of alcohol ban
245A: Constables may require certain information
32BA: Effect of infringement notice
19: Meaning of worker
109: Content of non-disturbance notice
173: Power of regulator to authorise making of applications for search warrants
175: Power to require name and address
239: New Schedule 3 substituted in Police Act 1958
Schedule 4: New Schedule 3 of Police Act 1958
281B: Power of entry and search for identity documents
290A: Obtaining biometric information by compulsion
213: Immediate suspension of benefit at request of New Zealand Police
303A: Disclosure of information to specified agencies for purposes of law enforcement, counter-terrorism, and security
169: Purpose of this subpart
172: Access by accessing agencies to law enforcement information
133BO: Power to enter building or land
133BP: Exercise of powers in secured buildings
133BR: Evacuation
207G: Power to secure investigation site
207I: Power to enter household unit
207J: Power to inspect and take samples and evidence
20G: Offence to interfere with enforcement officer
3: Purpose
5: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
6: Act binds the Crown
7: Prohibition on display of gang insignia in public place
10: Power to issue dispersal notice
12: Power to detain for purposes of issuing and serving notice
14: Requirement to disperse
15: Duration of dispersal notice
16: Terms of dispersal notice
17: Limits on dispersal notices
18: Variation of dispersal notice for specified reasons
19: Breach of dispersal notice
20: Review of dispersal notice
21: Power to make non-consorting orders
22: Duration of non-consorting order
23: Terms of non-consorting order
24: Limits on non-consorting orders
25: Breach of non-consorting order
30: Filing charging document for offence
32: Power to amend Schedule 2 by Order in Council
39: Consequential amendments
Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 2: Identified gangs
Schedule 3: Consequential amendments
13: Duty of constable to explain dispersal notice
11: Service of dispersal notice
9: Mandatory gang insignia prohibition order for repeat offences
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