13TPower to conduct search

13T Power to conduct search S. 13T(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 167.17). (1) A police officer who takes a person into custody under a preventative detention order, or who is present when the person is taken into custody, may, if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds— (a) that it is prudent to do so in order to ascertain whether the person is carrying any seizable items; or (b) that the person is carrying— (i) evidence of, or relating to, a terrorist act; or (ii) a seizable item— conduct a search of the person in the prescribed manner at, or soon after, the time when the person is taken into custody, and seize any such thing found as a result of the search. (2) Any thing seized under subsection (1) must be dealt with in accordance with the regulations. S. 13U (Heading) amended by No. 9/2025 s. 54(1). S. 13U inserted by No. 5/2006 s. 4.