(1) In conducting a search of a person under section 27, a police officer may, if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a thing of a kind referred to in section 27(1) or (2) is concealed in the person's mouth or hair, require the person--(a) to open his or her mouth to enable it to be searched, or(b) to shake, or otherwise move, his or her hair.
(2) Subsection (1) does not authorise a police officer to forcibly open a person's mouth.
(3) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail or refuse to comply with a requirement made by a police officer in accordance with this section.: Maximum penalty--5 penalty units.