Reprint as at 3 April 2009

Corrections Amendment Act 2009

Public Act	2009 No 3
Date of assent	9 March 2009
Commencement	see section 2

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Department of Corrections.

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Principal Act amended

Part 1
Amendments to Corrections Act 2004

4 Interpretation

5 Restrictions on exercise of certain powers

6 Religious and spiritual needs

7 Possession, carriage, and use of firearms prohibited

8 Definition of strip search

9 Authority to search property

10 Search of prisoners and cells

11 Search of staff lockers and other places

12 New section 103A inserted

103A Interpretation

13 General considerations relating to mail

14 Opening of mail

15 Reading of correspondence

16 Withholding mail

17 Mail between prisoners, official agencies, and members of Parliament

18 Mail between prisoners and legal advisers

19 New sections 110A to 110C inserted

110A Restrictions on disclosure of mail

110B Warnings in relation to mail

110C Application of Privacy Act 1993

20 Prisoner may be required to submit to drug or alcohol test

21 Offences by prisoner

22 Offences by prisoners relating to drugs and alcohol

23 Powers of hearing adjudicator in relation to offences against discipline

24 Powers of Visiting Justice in relation to offences by prisoners

25 Unauthorised deliveries, communications, and recordings

26 New section 141A inserted

141A Unauthorised use or possession of electronic communication device by prisoner

27 Restricted communications with, or deliveries to, prisoner outside prison

28 Contravention of section 118

29 Power of seizure

30 New heading and sections 179A to 179E inserted

Emergency management

179A Detention of prisoners eligible for release during outbreak or spread of infectious disease

179B No compensation for detention in prison under Health Act 1956

179C Interpretation

179D Notification of emergency

179E Exclusion of liability while epidemic notice in force or during emergency

31 New heading and section 181A inserted

Information sharing about highest-risk offenders

181A Disclosure of information relating to highest-risk offenders

32 Offender information may be disclosed to facilitate monitoring of certain offenders

33 Information sharing about child sex offenders

34 New heading and sections 189A to 189C inserted

Detection, interception, etc, of radiocommunications within prison boundaries

189A Interpretation

189B Detection, interception, etc, of radiocommunications within prison boundaries

189C Recordings of unauthorised communications

Part 2
Amendments to other enactments

Crimes Act 1961

35 Amendment to Crimes Act 1961

Parole Act 2002

36 Amendments to Parole Act 2002

37 Conditions applying to release at statutory release date

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