231Definitions

231 Definitions

In this Chapter—

authorised health professional means an authorised person who is—

(a) a registered paramedic employed by an ambulance service as defined in section 3(1) of the Ambulance Services Act 1986; or

(b) a registered medical practitioner employed or engaged by a designated mental health service; or

(c) an authorised mental health practitioner; or

(d) a member of a prescribed class of person;

search means a search of a person or of things in the possession or under the control of a person that may include—

(a) quickly running the hands over the person's outer clothing or passing an electronic metal detection device over or in close proximity to the person's outer clothing; and

(b) requiring the person to remove only the person's overcoat, coat or jacket or similar article of clothing and any gloves, shoes and hat; and

(c) an examination of those items of clothing; and

(d) requiring the person to empty the person's pockets or allowing the person's pockets to be searched;

specified body means—

(b) a prescribed mental health and wellbeing service provider;

(c) a hospital, including a public hospital, a denominational hospital or a privately‑operated hospital; or

(d) a public health service within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1988.