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Corrections Management Act 2007
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31 Detention in police cells—search powers etc
(1) The chief police officer may direct a police officer to conduct a
scanning search, frisk search, ordinary search or strip search of a
person detained at a police cell.
(2) For the application of this section to a detainee (other than a young
detainee), part 9.4 (Searches) and part 9.5 (Seizing property) apply as
if the direction, search or seizure occurred under the relevant part in
relation to a detainee at a correctional centre.
(3) For the application of this section to a young detainee, the following
provisions of the Children and Young People Act 2008 apply as if the
direction, search or seizure occurred under the relevant part in relation
to a young detainee at a detention place:
(a) part 7.1 (Preliminary—ch 7);
(b) part 7.2 (Searches generally);
(c) part 7.3 (Scanning, frisking and ordinary searches);
(d) part 7.4 (Strip searches—young detainees);
(e) part 7.9 (Seizing property).