Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN PROTECTIVE SERVICE ACT 1987 No. 7 of 1987 - SECT 17

17. (1) A protective service officer who arrests a person for an offence shall
ensure that the person is forthwith delivered into the custody of a
police officer to be dealt with according to law.

(2) Where a weapon or other thing has been seized from the person under
sub-section 16 (5), the protective service officer shall ensure that the
weapon or other thing is delivered to the police officer into whose custody
the person is delivered.