Corrective Services Act 2006

A prisoner must not—

prepare to escape from lawful custody; orNote—See the Criminal Code, section 142 for the offence of escaping from lawful custody.

assault or obstruct a staff member who is performing a function or exercising a power under this Act or is in a corrective services facility; or

disobey a lawful direction of the proper officer of a court or a person assisting the proper officer of a court; or

organise, attempt to organise or take part in any opposition to authority under this Act, whether inside or outside a corrective services facility; or

threaten to do grievous bodily harm to someone else; or

unlawfully kill or injure, or attempt to unlawfully kill or injure, a corrective services dog; or

obstruct a corrective services dog working under the control of a corrective services officer who is performing duties under this Act; or

assume another identity or adopt a disguise in order to commit an offence against this Act; or

wilfully and unlawfully destroy, damage, remove or otherwise interfere with any part of a corrective services facility or any property in the facility; or

without lawful authority, abstract or remove information from, copy or destroy information in, or make a false entry in, a record kept under this Act; or

without reasonable excuse, be unlawfully at large; or

without reasonable excuse, be in a restricted area of a corrective services facility.

Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.

If a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1)(l) relates to a restricted area prescribed by regulation and access to the area is not controlled by a corrective services officer, the prosecution must prove the prisoner was given sufficient warning to inform the prisoner that the area is a restricted area or that the prisoner must not access the area.

Without limiting subsection (2), a prisoner is taken to have been given a warning informing the prisoner of the restricted area at a corrective services facility if—

a notice is displayed in the area identifying it as a restricted area; or

the prisoner was informed, when admitted to the facility, about the restricted areas for the facility; or

a corrective services officer gave the prisoner a direction not to access the area.

In this section—restricted area, for a corrective services facility, means—

each roof of the facility; or

any other part of the facility prescribed by regulation for this definition.