# Detainees held in State or Territory prisons or remand centres

> act-s252F — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

252F Detainees held in State or Territory prisons or remand centres
          (1) This section applies to a detainee if:








                 (a) he or she is held in immigration detention in a prison or
                     remand centre of a State or Territory; and
                 (b) a law of that State or Territory confers a power to search
                     persons, or things in the possession of persons, serving
                     sentences or being held in the prison or remand centre.
          (2) To the extent that the State or Territory law confers that power, or
              affects the exercise of that power, it applies to the detainee as
              though it were a law of the Commonwealth.
          (3) Sections 252AA and 252A of this Act do not apply to a detainee to
              whom this section applies.