Searching of visitors
35 Searching of visitors
A juvenile justice officer may require a visitor—
to submit to an inspection and search of personal possessions, to scanning by means of an electronic scanning device and to being sniffed by a dog, and
to empty the pockets of the visitor’s clothing, and
to make available for inspection and search any vehicle under the visitor’s control that is on the premises of a detention centre.
Except as otherwise provided by this Regulation or as permitted by a juvenile justice officer, a visitor must, while the visit is taking place, leave anything that the visitor has brought into a detention centre in storage facilities provided for the purpose at the centre.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
A juvenile justice officer may confiscate, for the duration of the visit, anything that a visitor has brought into the detention centre (other than anything left in storage facilities as required by this clause).
Subclause (3) does not limit any other power that a juvenile justice officer may have apart from this clause to seize or detain anything in the possession of a person, such as a power to seize any such thing from a person following the person’s lawful arrest.
This clause does not apply to or in respect of any of the following visitors—
a police officer or correctional officer while acting in his or her official capacity,
an officer of an exempt body,
a diplomatic or consular representative of a foreign country.
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