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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 384
Definitions for pt 7
In this part—
"authorised security officer" means—
(a) a security officer; or
(b) an
appropriately qualified employee of an authorised mental health service who is
authorised by the administrator of the service to provide security services to
the service.
"general search" , of a person, means a search— (a) to reveal the contents
of the person’s outer garments, general clothes or hand luggage without
touching the person or the luggage; or
(b) in which the person may be
required to— (i) open his or her hands or mouth for visual inspection; or
(ii) shake his or her hair vigorously.
"personal search" , of a person, means a search in which light pressure is
momentarily applied to the person over the person’s general clothes without
direct contact being made with— (a) the person’s genital or anal areas; or
(b) for a female—the person’s breasts.
"postal article" includes a postal article carried by a courier service.
"scanning search" , of a person, means a search of the person by electronic or
other means that does not require the person to remove the person’s general
clothes or to be touched by another person. Examples of a scanning search—
• using a portable electronic apparatus or another portable apparatus that
can be passed over the person
• using an electronic apparatus through which
the person is required to pass
"search requiring the removal of clothing" , of a person, means a search in
which the person removes all garments during the course of the search, but in
which direct contact is not made with the person.
"security officer" means a person employed or engaged by an authorised mental
health service to provide security services, regardless of how the person’s
employment or engagement is described.
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