44Treatment of convicted and non-convicted detainees

44 Treatment of convicted and non-convicted detainees (1) Without limiting section 14 (Corrections policies and operating operating procedure providing for different treatment of convicted detainees and non-convicted detainees. a corrections policy or operating procedure, in accordance with the following rules of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, for non-convicted detainees to be able to— • procure food at own expense (r 87) • be offered work but not be obliged to work (r 89) • procure reading and writing material at own expense (r 90) • visit and be treated by own doctor at own expense (r 91) (2) The director-general must also ensure that convicted detainees are accommodated separately from non-convicted detainees. (3) For chapter 10 (Discipline)— (a) a detainee’s entitlement in relation to treatment in detention includes anything expressed to be an entitlement in a corrections policy or operating procedure made for subsection (1); and (b) subsection (2) is taken to provide an entitlement for each detainee in relation to accommodation.

(4) Despite subsection (2), the director-general may give directions for different accommodation of a non-convicted detainee if the director-general is satisfied that it is reasonably necessary to do so— (a) to protect the safety of the detainee or anyone else; or (b) in the best interests of the detainee. convicted detainee means a detainee whose detention is because of the detainee’s conviction of an offence.