Customs Act 1901

PART XII - OFFICERS  

Division 1B - Detention and Search of Suspects  

Subdivision E - Medical Practitioners  

SECTION 219ZF   CONDUCT OF INTERNAL MEDICAL SEARCH  

219ZF(1)   [Procedures]  

Subject to subsection (2), a medical practitioner may, in carrying out an internal medical search of a detainee under section 219Z, use any medical procedure or apparatus that the medical practitioner considers to be reasonably safe in the circumstances.

219ZF(2)   [Limitations]  

The medical practitioner must not use any medical procedure involving surgical incision unless he or she considers it necessary to do so because the detainee's life is at risk.

219ZF(3)   [Power to call in another practitioner]  

If the medical practitioner:

(a) suspects on reasonable grounds during the internal medical search that the detainee is internally concealing a substance or thing; and

(b) lacks sufficient expertise to recover it;

he or she must, as soon as practicable, arrange for another medical practitioner having that expertise to do so.