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PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 2002 - SECT 237

Restrictions on personal searches

  (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 a * frisk search of a person:

  (a)   a different search from the one authorised must not be done under the warrant; and

  (b)   the search must, if practicable, be conducted by a person of the same sex as the person being searched.

  (3)   A person who is not an * authorised officer but who has been authorised by the relevant * executing officer to assist in executing a * search warrant must not take part   in searching a person.



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