Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) This section applies if a police officer who takes a person into custody under section 13AH, or who is present when the person is taken into custody, suspects on reasonable grounds—
(a) that it is prudent to conduct a search of the person in order to ascertain whether the person is carrying any seizable items; or
(b) that the person is carrying—
(i) evidence of, or relating to, a terrorist act; or
(ii) a seizable item.
(2) The police officer may—
(a) conduct a search of the person in the prescribed manner at, or soon after, the time when the person is taken into custody; and
(b) seize any such thing found as a result of the search.
(3) Any thing seized under subsection (2) must be dealt with in accordance with the regulations.
S. 13AR inserted by No. 32/2018 s. 9.