Section 47Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Road barriers
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47. (1) It shall be lawful for a police officer of the rank of Inspector or above, if the police officer considers it necessary for the maintenance and preservation of law and order, the prevention or detection of crime or for the apprehension of offenders to erect or place barriers in or across any road or street or in any other public place in such manner as the police officer may think fit.
A police officer may take all reasonable steps as the police officer considers necessary to prevent a person or vehicle from passing a barrier erected or placed by virtue of subsection (1) and that person, or the driver of that vehicle, who fails to comply with any reasonable signal made by a police officer under this subsection commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year, or to both.
A police officer shall not be liable for any loss, damage or injury occasioned to a vehicle or suffered by a person as a result of any reasonable or necessary steps taken by that police officer under the authority of this section.