35Searching of visitors

35 Searching of visitors

35 Searching of visitors

(1) A juvenile justice officer may require a visitor—

(a) to submit to an inspection and search of personal possessions, to scanning by means of an electronic scanning device and to being sniffed by a dog, and

(b) to empty the pockets of the visitor’s clothing, and

(c) to make available for inspection and search any vehicle under the visitor’s control that is on the premises of a detention centre.

(2) Except as otherwise provided by this Regulation or as permitted by a juvenile justice officer, a visitor must, while the visit is taking place, leave anything that the visitor has brought into a detention centre in storage facilities provided for the purpose at the centre.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(3) A juvenile justice officer may confiscate, for the duration of the visit, anything that a visitor has brought into the detention centre (other than anything left in storage facilities as required by this clause).

(4) Subclause (3) does not limit any other power that a juvenile justice officer may have apart from this clause to seize or detain anything in the possession of a person, such as a power to seize any such thing from a person following the person’s lawful arrest.

(5) This clause does not apply to or in respect of any of the following visitors—

(a) a police officer or correctional officer while acting in his or her official capacity,

(b) an officer of an exempt body,

(c) a diplomatic or consular representative of a foreign country.