CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 31 Detention in police cells—search powers etc

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 31

    (1)     The chief police officer may direct a police officer to conduct a scanning search, frisk search, ordinary search or strip search of a person detained at a police cell.

    (2)     For the application of this section to a detainee (other than a young detainee), part 9.4 (Searches) and part 9.5 (Seizing property) apply as if the direction, search or seizure occurred under the relevant part in relation to a detainee at a correctional centre.

    (3)     For the application of this section to a young detainee, the following provisions of the Children and Young People Act 2008

apply as if the direction, search or seizure occurred under the relevant part in relation to a young detainee at a detention place:

        (a)     part 7.1 (Preliminary—ch 7);

        (b)     part 7.2 (Searches generally);

        (c)     part 7.3 (Scanning, frisking and ordinary searches);

        (d)     part 7.4 (Strip searches—young detainees);

        (e)     part 7.9 (Seizing property).