Perkins v Police - [1988] 1 NZLR 257

Criminal law — Practice and procedure — Police powers — Search under Arms Act — Whether a constable in uniform must further identify himself — Whether the constable must inform the person searched of the section and subsection under which the search was authorised before or during the search rather than after the search — Whether common law principles as to search supplement statutory requirements — Arms Act 1983, s 60(3).