Power to search persons
20M Power to search persons
(1) A police officer may, without a warrant, stop and detain a person for the purposes of conducting a search under subsection (2).
(2) The police officer may conduct one or more of the following searches for a terrorism related item:
an ordinary search or frisk search of the person;
(b) a search of anything that is, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds to be, in the possession of or under the control of the person;
(c) a search of anything that the person has, or that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds the person has, brought into the special area.
(3) The police officer may detain a person stopped under subsection (1) for as long as is reasonably necessary to conduct a search of the person or anything in the possession of or under the control of the person.
(4) For section 112(1) of the Criminal Code, a person detained under subsection (1) is in the lawful custody of the police officer while so detained.
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