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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 384 Definitions for pt 7

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 384

Definitions for pt 7

384 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.