[85B Power to search further education students for weapons[: Wales]]
Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (1992 c 13) | Legislation

[85B  Power to search further education students for weapons[: Wales]]

[(1)     A member of staff of an institution within the further education sector [in Wales] who has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a student at the institution may have with him or in his possessions—

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

(b)     an offensive weapon (within the meaning of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953),

may search that student or his possessions for such articles and weapons.

(2)     A search under this section may be carried out only where—

(a)     the member of staff and the student are on the premises of the institution; or

(b)     they are elsewhere and the member of staff has lawful control or charge

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