Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Act 2017

(1) This section applies only if premises are entered under a search warrant.

(2) An authorised officer may search a person on or about the premises whom the authorised officer suspects on reasonable grounds has on their person evidence of improper conduct.

(3) In searching a person under this section, the authorised officer:

(b) may require the person to remove a coat, jacket, hat or shoes the person is wearing, and may run the officer's hands over the person's remaining outer clothing; and

(c) if the officer sees or detects anything the officer suspects on reasonable grounds is, or contains, evidence of improper conduct – may require the person to surrender the thing for inspection; and

(d) may use reasonable force to remove a thing from a person if the person does not comply with a requirement to remove or surrender the thing under paragraph (b) or (c); and

(e) may inspect a thing that a person has removed or surrendered, or that has been removed from a person; and

(f) must conduct the search in a manner that affords, to the extent that the circumstances of the search permit, reasonable privacy to the person being searched; and

(g) must conduct the search as quickly as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances.

(4) A search must be conducted by a person of the same sex as the person being searched unless it is not reasonable or practicable to do so in the circumstances of the search.