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Corrections Management Act 2007
145Taking prohibited things etc into correctional centre
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145 Taking prohibited things etc into correctional centre
(1) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) takes or sends a prohibited thing into a correctional centre; or
(b) gives or sends a prohibited thing to a detainee; or
(c) removes a prohibited thing from a correctional centre.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or
(2) For subsection (1), send does not require personal carriage of the
prohibited thing into the correctional centre or for a prohibited thing
to be personally given to a detainee.
1 a prohibited thing being dropped into a correctional centre by a drone or
remotely piloted aircraft
2 a prohibited thing being thrown into a correctional centre
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any action approved by the
prohibited thing includes something the person intends a detainee to
use for making a prohibited thing or use otherwise in relation to a
prohibited thing.