Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If the officer in charge believes on reasonable grounds that a person is committing or has committed an offence against section 488DB(1), the officer in charge may order an officer to conduct a search outside but near the youth justice facility.
(2) If an officer believes on reasonable grounds that a person is committing or has committed an offence against section 488DB(1), the officer may conduct a search outside but near the youth justice facility.
(3) In conducting a search under subsection (1) or (2), an officer may—
(a) search and examine a person who is reasonably believed to have committed the offence including any thing belonging to, in the possession of or under the control of, the person, including the person's vehicle; or
(b) search the location at which the offence is reasonably believed to have been committed; or
(c) require a person outside but near the youth justice facility to submit to a search if the officer reasonably believes that a thing on the person or in the person's possession will afford evidence of the commission of the offence; or
(d) search and examine any thing outside but near the youth justice facility, including a place where detainees are, if the officer reasonably believes that the thing will afford evidence of the commission of the offence; or
(e) seize any thing in accordance with section 488DE.
(4) Before carrying out a search under subsection (1) or (2), the officer who is to conduct the search must—
(a) inform the person of the officer's authority to conduct the search; and
(b) inform the person that the person may refuse the search.
(5) The officer in charge may at any time make an order terminating a search under subsection (1) or (2).
(6) A search under subsection (1) or (2) must be conducted in accordance with the regulations.
S. 488DE inserted by No. 31/2017 s. 64.