Northern Territory Numbered Acts

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 2014 (NO 26 OF 2014) - SECT 47

    (1)     A correctional officer may search a prisoner or a prisoner's personal property.

    (2)     However, a search under this section must not be an intimate search.

    (3)     If the prisoner does not submit to the search, the correctional officer may use the force that is reasonably necessary to carry out the search.

Note for subsection (3)

Part 3.4 makes provision in relation to the use of force.

    (4)     The correctional officer may confiscate a thing found during the search that the correctional officer reasonably believes is:

    (a)     a prohibited thing; or

    (b)     connected with an offence against this Act.

Note for subsection (4)

Part 3.5, Division 2 makes provision in relation to confiscation and how confiscated things are to be dealt with.