Corrections and Conditional Release Act (S.C. 1992, c. 20)

Marginal note:Frisk search, room search

• 66 (1) An employee of a community-based residential facility who is so authorized by the Service may

  • (a) conduct a frisk search of an offender in that facility, and

  • (b) search an offender’s room and its contents,

  where the employee suspects on reasonable grounds that the offender is violating or has violated a condition of the offender’s parole, statutory release or temporary absence and that such a search is necessary to confirm the suspected violation.

• Marginal note:Power to seize

  (2) An employee who conducts a search pursuant to subsection (1) may seize any evidence of a violation of the offender’s conditions of release found in the course of the search.

• Marginal note:Definition of community-based residential facility

  (3) In this section, community-based residential facility means a place that provides accommodation to offenders who are on parole, statutory release or temporary absence.