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Corrections Act 2004

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

92B: Meaning of imaging technology search

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"What an imaging technology search is: using machines to take pictures inside or outside your body"

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When you hear the term imaging technology search, it refers to a scanner search that produces an image of your body or part of your body. This can show what is inside or outside your body. It includes using machines like an x-ray machine or a body scanner to do the search.

You can find more information about this in the Corrections Act 2004, which was amended by the Corrections Amendment Act 2019. This amendment was made to help clarify what an imaging technology search is. It is an important part of the law that applies to searching prisoners and other persons.

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Coercive powers: Searching of prisoners and other persons

92BMeaning of imaging technology search

  1. For the purposes of this Act, imaging technology search—

  2. means a scanner search that produces an image of the body or part of the body (whether external or internal) of the person being searched; and
    1. includes, without limitation, a search using an x-ray machine or a body scanner.

      Notes
      • Section 92B: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 57).