384EChild or young person may be strip searched

1. A member of staff may, if that member of staff believes on reasonable grounds that a child or young person has in their possession a harmful item, conduct a strip search of that child or young person for the purposes of detecting the harmful item—

2. if that member believes on reasonable grounds that a strip search is necessary in order to detect the item; and
3. if a scanner search or a pat down search of the child or young person has already been carried out for that purpose.

4. A child or young person required to undress or remove any clothing and underclothing under subsection (1) may be required to remain undressed or partly undressed only as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes of the search.