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Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
72BSearch on entering or leaving a secure welfare service
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72B Search on entering or leaving a secure welfare service
S. 72B(1) amended by No. 6/2024 s. 82.
(1) A person (whether a child resident, a visitor or any other person) who wishes or is required to enter or leave a place at which a secure welfare service is provided must, if asked, submit to a screening search.
(2) A person must not be asked under this section to submit to a frisk search, an unclothed search or a search of his or her body cavities.
S. 72C inserted by No. 29/2014 s. 7.