Customs Controlled Areas Regulations (SOR/2013-127)

5 (1) For the purposes of subsection 99.2(2) of the Act, an officer may conduct a frisk search –– a search of a person’s clothed body by manual or technical means — of a person prescribed under section 4 if the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has secreted on or about their person anything in respect of which the Act or the regulations have been or might be contravened, anything that would afford evidence with respect to a contravention of the Act or the regulations or any goods the importation or exportation of which is prohibited, controlled or regulated under the Act or any other Act of Parliament.

(2) For the purposes of subsection 99.2(2) of the Act, an officer may conduct a strip search –– a visual inspection of a person’s naked body during which the person may be required to open his or her mouth — of a person prescribed under section 4 if the officer believes on reasonable grounds that the person has secreted on or about their person anything in respect of which the Act or the regulations have been or might be contravened, anything that would afford evidence with respect to a contravention of the Act or the regulations or any goods the importation or exportation of which is prohibited, controlled or regulated under the Act or any other Act of Parliament.

(3) A strip search must be conducted in a private area.