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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending - Management of residents - Searches

64: Search of persons other than residents

You could also call this:

"Checking people who are not residents for things they shouldn't have"

Illustration for Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

If you want to enter a residence or you are already in a residence, the person in charge or a staff member can use a scanner to check you for prohibited items. They do this to find out if you have anything you are not allowed to have. You can be scanned if you want to enter or are already in the residence.

If the person in charge or a staff member thinks you might have a prohibited item, they can ask to pat you down to check, but only if you agree. They need to have a good reason to think you have something you should not have. You have to say yes to the pat-down search for it to happen.

If you do not want to be scanned or patted down, you might not be allowed to enter the residence, or you might be asked to leave if you are already inside. This is because the residence has rules to keep everyone safe. You can find more information about similar rules in the Public Safety Act by looking at section 99.

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Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Management of residents: Searches

64Search of persons other than residents

  1. The residence manager or a staff member of the residence may, for the purpose of detecting any prohibited item, conduct a scanner search of any person who wishes to enter the residence or who is in the residence.

  2. If the residence manager or a staff member of the residence has reasonable grounds to suspect that any person who wishes to enter a residence or who is in a residence has in his or her possession any prohibited item, the residence manager or the staff member may, with that person's consent, conduct a rub-down search of that person.

  3. Any person who refuses to submit to a scanner search or to a rub-down search—

  4. must be refused admission to the residence:
    1. if the person is already inside the residence, may be required to leave the residence.

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