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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 252F
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252F  Detainees held in State or Territory prisons or remand centres

 (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.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 27 June 2001
Senate on 28 August 2001]

(113/01)