PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY (SPECIAL POWERS)
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- (c) controlling public disorder or restoring or maintaining public order after the occurrence of the serious incident;
- (d) apprehending the persons responsible for the serious incident;
- (e) preserving the evidence of, or relating to, the serious incident;
- (f) supporting the necessary recovery process for the community in the aftermath of the serious incident;
- (g) facilitating the activities of emergency service agencies responding to the serious incident.
(2) In granting a special authorisation under this Part, it is not necessary for the Commissioner to give any person who may be affected by the special authorisation a chance to be heard before the authorisation is granted.
Contents of special authorisation
12.—(1) A special authorisation must—
- (a) describe the general nature of the serious incident or threatened serious incident to which it applies;
- (b) specify the period or periods during which the authorisation has effect;
- (c) specify which of the special powers may be exercised under the authorisation, but subject to section 15(4); and
- (d) authorise the exercise of the special powers specified under paragraph (c) in relation to all or any of the following:
- (i) a particular individual or person named or described in the authorisation (called in this Act a target person of the special authorisation);
- (ii) a particular vehicle, or a vehicle of a particular kind, described in the authorisation (called in this Act a target vehicle of the special authorisation);
- (iii) a particular area described in the authorisation (called in this Act a target area of the special authorisation).
