Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A search warrant cannot authorise a strip search or a search of a person's body cavities.
(2) If a search warrant authorises an ordinary search or frisk search of a person—
(a) a different search from the search authorised must not be done under the warrant; and
(b) the search must be conducted by a person of the same sex as the person being searched.
(3) However, if a transgender or intersex person is searched, the person may require that the search be conducted by either a male or a female.
(4) If the transgender or intersex person requires that the search be conducted by a male, the person is taken, for this section, to be male.
(5) If the transgender or intersex person requires that the search be conducted by a female, the person is taken, for this section, to be female.
(6) A person assisting who is not a police officer must not take part in searching a person.
(7) In this section:
"strip search "means a search of a person or of articles in the possession of a person, which may include 1 or more of the following:
(a) requiring the person to remove all of the person's clothing;
(b) an examination of the person's body (but not of the person's body cavities) and of those clothes.