Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 258

    (1)     The director-general may direct a youth detention officer to strip search a young detainee only if—

        (a)     the director-general suspects on reasonable grounds that the young detainee has something concealed on the young detainee that—

              (i)     is a prohibited thing; or

              (ii)     may be used by the young detainee in a way that may involve an offence, a behaviour breach, a risk to the personal safety of the young detainee or someone else, or a risk to the security at a detention place; and

        (b)     a scanning search, frisk search or ordinary search of the young detainee has failed to detect the thing.

    (2)     To remove any doubt, the strip search need not be conducted in the presence of a person who has daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the young detainee.

    (3)     This section does not apply to a strip search under section 254 (Strip searches on admission to detention place).