Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 401

401 Requirements for search of possessions

(1) A person authorised under division 3 , 4 or 5 to carry out a search of a person’s possessions (the
"searcher" ) may—

(a) open or inspect a thing in the person’s possession; and

(b) remove and inspect any detected thing.

(2) However, the searcher may exercise a power to inspect a thing under subsection (1) only if the person is present or has been given the opportunity to be present.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person obstructs the searcher in the exercise of the searcher’s powers.