[550ZA Power of members of staff to search pupils for prohibited items: England]

[Powers to search pupils]

[550ZA  Power of members of staff to search pupils for prohibited items: England]

[(1)     This section applies where a member of staff of a school in England—

(a)     has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a pupil at the school may have a prohibited item with him or her or in his or her possessions; and

(b)     falls within section 550ZB(1).

(2)     The member of staff may search the pupil (“P”) or P's possessions for that item.

(3)     For the purposes of this section and section 550ZC each of the following is a “prohibited item”—

(a)     an article to which section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies (knives and blades etc);

(b)     an offensive weapon, within the meaning

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