Corrections and Conditional Release Regulations (SOR/92-620)

54 (1) A staff member may conduct a routine non-intrusive search or a routine frisk search of a visitor, without individualized suspicion, when the visitor is entering or leaving a penitentiary or a secure area.

(2) If a visitor refuses to undergo a search referred to in subsection (1) or section 54.1, the institutional head or a staff member designated by the institutional head may

• (a) prohibit a contact visit with an inmate and authorize a non-contact visit; or

• (b) require the visitor to leave the penitentiary immediately.