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Correctional Services Act 2014
47Searches of prisoners
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47 Searches of prisoners (1) A correctional officer may search a prisoner or a prisoner's personal property.
Correctional Services Act 2014 25 (2) However, a search under this section must not be an intimate search. (3) If the prisoner does not submit to the search, the correctional officer may use the force that is reasonably necessary to carry out the search. (4) The correctional officer may confiscate a thing found during the