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Children and Young People Act 2008
272Body searches—rules about touching young detainees
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272 Body searches—rules about touching young detainees For the body search of a young detainee, the non-treating doctor or non-treating nurse may touch the young detainee and examine the young detainee’s orifices, but only if the doctor or nurse is of the same sex as the young detainee.