Corrections Management Act 2007
152Meaning of disciplinary breach
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152 Meaning of disciplinary breach For a detainee, each of the following is a disciplinary breach: (a) contravening a direction given to the detainee by the director-general or a corrections officer under this Act or the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005; Note A reference to an Act includes a reference to the statutory instruments made or in force under the Act, including any regulation (see Legislation Act, s 104). (b) being in a prohibited area, without the director-general’s (c) smoking in a nonsmoking area at a correctional centre; (d) taking (in any way) alcohol or a drug into the detainee’s body; (e) providing a positive test sample for alcohol or a drug when directed, under this Act or the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005, to provide a test sample; (f) making, possessing, concealing, knowingly consuming or dealing with a prohibited thing, without the director-general’s
(g) gambling; (h) being disrespectful or abusive towards a corrections officer in a way that undermines the officer’s authority; (i) being disrespectful or abusive towards someone in a way that is likely to provoke a person to be violent; (j) intentionally or recklessly engaging in conduct that endangers, or may endanger, the health or safety of the detainee or anyone else; (k) fighting; (l) assaulting someone else; (m) theft; (n) possessing stolen property; (o) possessing or dealing in things without the director-general’s (p) intentionally or recklessly damaging or destroying property belonging to someone else; (q) interfering with property belonging to someone else, without approval by the owner of the property; (r) interfering with anyone’s personal monitoring device without the director-general’s approval; (s) creating or participating in a disturbance, or other activity, likely to endanger security or good order at a correctional centre; (t) contravening a condition of any of the following: (i) a direction under section 204 (Local leave directions); (ii) a local leave permit; (iii) an interstate leave permit;
(u) doing anything for the purpose of escaping, or assisting a detainee to escape, from detention; (v) offering, giving or taking a bribe; (w) attempting, or assisting anyone else attempting, to commit another disciplinary breach; (x) threatening to do anything mentioned in paragraphs (j), (k), (l), (p) or (s); (y) anything else prescribed by regulation. Examples of contravening director-general directions—par (a) failing to comply with a direction by the director-general to provide a test sample or submit to a search under this Act