25FRelevant search purposes

25F Relevant search purposes

[Section 25F of Part 3 Inserted by No. 14 of 2022, s. 6, Applied:01 Dec 2022] For the purposes of this Division, a relevant search purpose is a search of a youth for one or more of the following purposes:

(a) to ensure the safety of the youth or other persons;

(b) to obtain evidence relating to the commission of an offenceor to prevent the loss or destruction of evidence in relation to the commission of an offence;

(c) to ascertain whether the youth has possession of a concealed weapon, or other article capable of being used as a weapon, to inflict injury or to assist the youth, or another youth, to escape from custody;

(d) to ascertain whether the youth has possession of drugs or any other things which the youth is prohibited by law from taking into, or having possession of in, the custodial facility in which the youth is situated;

(e) if the search is a clothed search – to remove into safe keeping any articles belonging to, or in the possession of, the youth.