S-40.1, r. 1 - Regulation under the Act respecting the Québec correctional system

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27. A correctional officer may submit an inmate to a non-intrusive search, a frisk search, a body scan search or a strip search in the following circumstances:
(1)  the inmate is entering or leaving a correctional facility;
(2)  the inmate is entering or leaving an institutional vehicle;
(3)  the inmate is entering or leaving a visiting area other than a secure area;
(4)  the inmate is leaving an area, workshop, activity room or outdoor yard in the facility where the inmate may have had access to contraband that the inmate could have hidden on his or her person;
(5)  the inmate is entering or leaving a solitary, administrative segregation or observation cell;
(6)  as part of a search of the inmate’s cell or area conducted pursuant to this Regulation, if the inmate may have had access to contraband that the inmate could have hidden on his or her person.
O.C. 5-2007, s. 27; O.C. 1325-2024, s. 16.
27. A correctional officer may strip search an inmate in the following circumstances:
(1)  the inmate is entering or leaving a correctional facility;
(2)  the inmate is entering or leaving an institutional vehicle;
(3)  the inmate is entering or leaving a visiting area other than a secure area;
(4)  the inmate is leaving an area, workshop, activity room or exercise yard in the facility where the inmate may have had access to contraband that the inmate could have hidden on his or her person;
(5)  the inmate is entering or leaving a solitary, administrative segregation or observation cell.
O.C. 5-2007, s. 27.