147Searches of visitors

147 Searches of visitors (1) The director-general may direct a corrections officer to conduct a scanning search, frisk search or ordinary search of a visitor at a correctional centre if the director-general suspects, on reasonable grounds, that the visitor is carrying— (a) a prohibited thing; or (b) anything else that creates, or is likely to create, a risk to— (i) the personal safety of anyone else; or (2) Part 9.4 (Searches) and part 9.5 (Seizing property) apply as if a direction under this section, any scanning search, frisk search or ordinary search conducted under the direction, and anything found in the search, occurred under the relevant part in relation to a detainee at a correctional centre. (3) However, section 126 (Searches—use of force) does not apply in relation to a search of a visitor at a correctional centre.