Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If a detention officer or police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person is internally concealing a suspicious substance, an officer of Customs or police officer may detain the person for the purposes of:
(a) carrying out an internal non - medical scan under section 219SA; or
(b) enabling an application to be made under section 219T for an order for the person to be detained.
(2) If the person is so detained, an officer of Customs or police officer:
(a) must, as soon as practicable, take the person to the nearest detention place that the officer considers suitable for the detention of the person for the purposes of this Subdivision; and
(b) may detain the person at that place for those purposes.
Note: See also subsections 219Z(3) to (6) for places at which a person can be detained if an internal medical search of the person is carried out.