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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
253HVisitors must leave possessions in storage facilities
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#### 253H Visitors must leave possessions in storage facilities
253H Visitors must leave possessions in storage facilities
> > (1) Except as otherwise provided by this Act or as permitted by a correctional officer, a visitor must, while the visit is taking place, leave anything that the visitor has brought into a place of detention in storage facilities provided for the purpose at the place.
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> > Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
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> > (2) A correctional officer may confiscate, for the duration of the visit, anything that a visitor has brought into the place of detention but not left in storage facilities as required by subsection (1).
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> > (3) Subsection (2) does not limit any other power that a correctional officer may have apart from this section to seize or detain anything of the kind referred to in that subsection, including a power to seize a thing from a person following the person’s lawful arrest.
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> > (4) In this section, place of detention does not include a residential facility.