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DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE ACT 1989
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189 Clothing and body searches
(1) If a police officer is authorised under this division to search the
clothing that a person is wearing, the police officer may remove, or
require the person to remove, any clothing that the person is wearing.
(2) A person shall not be searched under this division except by a police
officer of the same sex.
(3) However, if a transgender or intersex person is searched, the person
may require that the search be conducted by either a male or a female.
Note 1 For the meaning of transgender person see Legislation Act, s 169A.
Note 2 For the meaning of intersex person, see Legislation Act, s 169B.
(4) If the transgender or intersex person requires that the search be
conducted by a male, the person is taken, for this section, to be male.
(5) If the transgender or intersex person requires that the search be
conducted by a female, the person is taken, for this section, to be
female.
(6) Nothing in this division authorises a police officer to conduct an
internal body search.