This legislation has been repealed.
(1) If an inspector or police officer may search a person under this division, the inspector or police officer may also search—
(a) the clothing that is being worn by the person; and
(b) any property in, or apparently in, the person's immediate control.
(2) In conducting a search of a person under this division, an inspector or police officer shall not use more force, or subject a person to greater indignity, than is reasonable and necessary to conduct the search.
(3) A person shall not be searched under this division except by a person of the same sex.
(4) However, if a transgender or intersex person is searched, the person may require that the search be conducted by either a male or a female.
Note 1 For the meaning of transgender person , see Legislation Act, s 169A.
Note 2 For the meaning of intersex person , see Legislation Act, s 169B.
(5) If the transgender or intersex person requires that the search be conducted by a male, the person is taken, for this section, to be male.
(6) If the transgender or intersex person requires that the search be conducted by a female, the person is taken, for this section, to be female.
(7) Nothing in this division shall be taken to authorise a person to carry out a search by way of an examination of a body cavity of a person.