253HVisitors must leave possessions in storage facilities

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.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(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).

(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.

(4) In this section, place of detention does not include a residential facility.