# The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000, Article 46: Search


(1) Every inmate shall be searched when taken into custody by an officer, on his reception into a young offender institution and subsequently as the governor thinks necessary or as the Secretary of State may direct.
(2) An inmate shall be searched in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.
(3) No inmate shall be stripped and searched in the sight of another inmate or in the sight of a person of the opposite sex.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3371/article/46 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-46
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