Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 263

    (1)     A strip search of a young detainee must not involve—

        (a)     the removal from the young detainee of more clothes than is necessary and reasonable for the search; or

        (b)     the removal from the young detainee of more clothes at any time than is necessary and reasonable for the search; or

        (c)     without limiting paragraph (b), both the upper and lower parts of the young detainee's body being uncovered at the same time.

    (2)     A young detainee who has been strip-searched must be allowed to dress in private as soon as the search is finished.

    (3)     If clothing from a young detainee is seized during a strip search, the youth detention officer conducting the search must ensure that the young detainee is left with, or given, reasonably appropriate clothing to wear.