495Commissioner for Youth Justice may order search

495 Commissioner for Youth Justice may order search

(1) If the Commissioner for Youth Justice is of the opinion that it is necessary to do so in the interests of the safety, security or stability of a youth justice custodial centre or the children and young persons held in custody in the youth justice custodial centre, the Commissioner may order at any time that a youth justice custodial officer—

(a) search any part of the youth justice custodial centre; or

(b) carry out a pat-down search or a screening search of any child or young person held in custody in the youth justice custodial centre; or

(c) search and examine any thing in the youth justice custodial centre.

(2) A child or young person must not be asked under this section to submit to—

(b) a search of the body cavities.

An unclothed search may be authorised under section 497.