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

Marginal note:Routine non-intrusive or frisk searches

• 47 (1) A staff member may conduct routine non-intrusive searches or routine frisk searches of inmates, without individualized suspicion, in the prescribed circumstances, which circumstances must be limited to what is reasonably required for security purposes.

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  (2) A person providing services of a prescribed class to the Service under a contract has the power to search that a staff member is authorized to conduct under subsection (1) if

  • (a) the conducting of such searches is provided for in the contract but does not constitute the person’s principal services under the contract;

  • (b) the searches are reasonably related to the person’s principal services under the contract; and

  • (c) the person has received the prescribed training to conduct such searches.