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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Coercive powers - Searching of prisoners and other persons

92A: Meaning of scanner search for purposes of this Act

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"What a scanner search means and how it's done"

When you are searched using a scanner, it means a device is used to check you and your things for items you are not allowed to have. This device can check inside your body, under your clothes, or in your belongings. It can also measure your body temperature.

If you are having a scanner search, the person doing the search might ask you to remove some of your clothes or things you are wearing, like your jacket or shoes. They might also ask you to follow some other steps to help with the search. This is so they can do the search properly.

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Part 2Corrections system
Coercive powers: Searching of prisoners and other persons

92AMeaning of scanner search for purposes of this Act

  1. For the purposes of this Act, scanner search means—

  2. a search of a person and the person’s clothing or possessions using an electronic device (whether or not the device uses imaging technology) designed to identify the presence of unauthorised items that are concealed—
    1. in a person’s body:
      1. beneath or within clothing or possessions; or
      2. a search of a person using an electronic device (whether or not the device uses imaging technology) designed to measure a person’s body temperature.

        1. For the purpose of facilitating a scanner search under this Act, the person conducting the search may require the person being searched to—

        2. remove any item of outer clothing (including, without limitation, any jacket, jumper, or sweatshirt) that needs to be removed in order to carry out the search, except where the person being searched has no other clothing, or only underclothing, under that outer clothing:
          1. remove any head covering, gloves, footwear (including socks or stockings), belts, jewellery, or other accessories:
            1. comply with any other procedure that needs to be undertaken to carry out the search.

              Notes
              • Section 92A: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 57).
              • Section 92A(1): replaced, on , by section 22 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).