Dealing with prohibited thing
123 Dealing with prohibited thing
A regulation may prescribe a thing to be a prohibited thing.
A prisoner in a corrective services facility must not deal, or attempt to deal, with—
a prohibited thing; or
something intended to be used by a prisoner to make a prohibited thing.
Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
However, subsection (2) does not apply to—
making or attempting to make a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to make it; or
possession of a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to possess it.
The finding of a prohibited thing in a prisoner’s room that is not shared with another prisoner, or on the person of a prisoner, in a corrective services facility is evidence the thing was in the prisoner’s possession when it was found.
In this section—deal with, a thing, means make, possess, conceal or knowingly consume the thing.
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