Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If the Commissioner for Youth Justice believes on reasonable grounds that a person is committing or has committed an offence against section 528(1) or (2), the Commissioner for Youth Justice may order a youth justice custodial officer to conduct a search of a public place adjoining the youth justice custodial centre.
(2) If a youth justice custodial officer believes on reasonable grounds that a person is committing or has committed an offence against section 528(1) or (2), the officer may conduct a search of a public place adjoining the youth justice custodial centre.
(3) In conducting a search under this section, a youth justice custodial officer may—
(a) search and examine a person who is reasonably believed to have committed the offence, including any thing belonging to, in the possession of or under the control of the person, including the person's vehicle; or
(b) search the location at which the offence is reasonably believed to have been committed; or
(c) require a person in the public place adjoining the youth justice custodial centre to submit to a search if the officer reasonably believes that a thing on the person or in the person's possession will afford evidence of the commission of the offence; or
(d) search and examine any thing in the public place adjoining the youth justice custodial centre if the youth justice custodial officer reasonably believes that the thing will afford evidence of the commission of the offence; or
(e) seize any thing in accordance with section 532.
(4) Before carrying out a search of a person under this section, the youth justice custodial officer who is to conduct the search must—
(a) inform the person of the officer's authority to conduct the search; and
(b) inform the person that the person may refuse the search.
(5) The Commissioner for Youth Justice may at any time terminate a search under this section.
(6) A search under this section must be conducted in accordance with the regulations.