Section 252F — Migration Act 1958 (Cth)

(1) This section applies to a detainee if:

(a) he or she is held in immigration detention in a prison or remand centre of a State or Territory; and

(b) a law of that State or Territory confers a power to search persons, or things in the possession of persons, serving sentences or being held in the prison or remand centre.

(2) To the extent that the State or Territory law confers that power, or affects the exercise of that power, it applies to the detainee as though it were a law of the Commonwealth.

(3) Sections 252AA and 252A of this Act do not apply to a detainee to whom this section applies.

Related sections

• s 252CB — Screening and strip searches of detainees and searches of facilities—return of seized things
• s 252D — Retention of certain seized things for extended period—application for order by magistrate
• s 252E — Retention of certain seized things for extended period—order by magistrate
• s 252G — Persons entering immigration detention facilities—screening powers
• s 253 — Detention of deportee
• s 254 — Removees and deportees held in other custody

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