Record of searches
27 Record of searches
This section applies to the following searches—
a search of a child under section 24 for which a detention centre employee used reasonable force to carry out the search;
an imaging search of a child under section 24A;
a search of a child under section 25;
a body search of a child under section 26.
The chief executive must make a record of the search containing the following information—
the name of the child;
the reason for the search;
the name of the person who carried out the search and the name of each person who helped to carry out the search;
for a search mentioned in subsection (1)(a)—the reason for the use of force and details of the force used;
for another search—whether force was used to carry out the search and, if force was used, the reason for its use and details of the force used.
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