134 Searching arrested persons
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (1999 c 33) | Legislation

Power to search persons

134  Searching arrested persons

(1)     In the 1971 Act, after section 28F, insert—

“28G Searching arrested persons

(1)     This section applies if a person is arrested for an offence under this Part at a place other than a police station.

(2)     An immigration officer may search the arrested person if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the arrested person may present a danger to himself or others.

(3)     The officer may search the arrested person for—

(a)     anything which he might use to assist his escape from lawful custody; or

(b)     anything which might be evidence relating to the offence for which he has been arrested.

(4)     The power conferred by subsection (3) may be exercised—

(a)     only if the officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the arrested person may have concealed on him anything of a kind mentioned in that subsection; and

(b)     only to the extent that it is reasonably

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