Inspector of Detention Services Act 2022

This section applies if the inspector—

is carrying out a review of a detention service provided for a place of detention; or

has carried out, or proposes to carry out, an inspection of a place of detention.

The inspector may ask the responsible officer for the place of detention to give the inspector relevant information about the detention service or place of detention.

The inspector may ask the health service chief executive of a Hospital and Health Service or the chief executive of the health department to give the inspector relevant information relating to a health service provided by or for the Service or department to a detainee at the place of detention.

The inspector may ask a person who has provided a service relating to the education of a detainee while the detainee was detained at the place of detention to give the inspector relevant information relating to the service.

Subsection (4) applies whether the service was provided at, or away from, the place of detention.

A person of whom a request is made under subsection (2), (3) or (4) must comply with the request unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

This section does not limit section 12.

In this section—

detainee includes a former detainee.

relevant, in relation to information, means information the inspector believes is relevant to the review or inspection.