MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 384 Definitions for pt 7
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 384
Definitions for pt 7384 Definitions for pt 7
In this part—
"authorised security officer" means—
(a) a security officer; or
(b) an appropriately qualified employee of an authorised mental health service who is authorised by the administrator of the service to provide security services to the service.
"general search" , of a person, means a search—
(a) to reveal the contents of the person’s outer garments, general clothes or hand luggage without touching the person or the luggage; or
(b) in which the person may be required to—(i) open his or her hands or mouth for visual inspection; or(ii) shake his or her hair vigorously.
"personal search" , of a person, means a search in which light pressure is momentarily applied to the person over the person’s general clothes without direct contact being made with—
(a) the person’s genital or anal areas; or
(b) for a female—the person’s breasts.
"postal article" includes a postal article carried by a courier service.
"scanning search" , of a person, means a search of the person by electronic or other means that does not require the person to remove the person’s general clothes or to be touched by another person.
Examples of a scanning search—• using a portable electronic apparatus or another portable apparatus that can be passed over the person• using an electronic apparatus through which the person is required to pass
"search requiring the removal of clothing" , of a person, means a search in which the person removes all garments during the course of the search, but in which direct contact is not made with the person.
"security officer" means a person employed or engaged by an authorised mental health service to provide security services, regardless of how the person’s employment or engagement is described.