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(1)

Every prisoner shall be searched when taken into custody by an officer, on his reception into a prison and subsequently as the governor thinks necessary or as the Secretary of State may direct.

(2)

A prisoner shall be searched in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.

(3)

No prisoner shall be stripped and searched in the sight of another prisoner, or in the sight of a person of the opposite sex.