Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered 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) A person assisting who is not a police officer must not take part in searching a person.
(4) In this section:
"same sex", for a transgender person, means the same sex as the sex with which the transgender person identifies.
"strip search "means a search of a person or of articles in the possession of a person, which may include all or any of the following:
(a) requiring the person to remove all of his or her clothing;
(b) an examination of the person's body (but not of the person's body cavities) and of those clothes.
"transgender person"—see the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000 , section 17.