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Corrective Services Act 2006
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### sec.123 Dealing with prohibited thing
A regulation may prescribe a thing to be a prohibited thing.
A prisoner in a corrective services facility must not deal, or attempt to deal, with—
a prohibited thing; or
something intended to be used by a prisoner to make a prohibited thing.
Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
However, subsection (2) does not apply to—
making or attempting to make a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to make it; or
possession of a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to possess it.
The finding of a prohibited thing in a prisoner’s room that is not shared with another prisoner, or on the person of a prisoner, in a corrective services facility is evidence the thing was in the prisoner’s possession when it was found.
In this section—
deal with , a thing, means make, possess, conceal or knowingly consume the thing.
(sec.123-ssec.1) A regulation may prescribe a thing to be a prohibited thing.
(sec.123-ssec.2) A prisoner in a corrective services facility must not deal, or attempt to deal, with— a prohibited thing; or something intended to be used by a prisoner to make a prohibited thing. Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
(sec.123-ssec.3) However, subsection (2) does not apply to— making or attempting to make a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to make it; or possession of a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to possess it.
(sec.123-ssec.4) The finding of a prohibited thing in a prisoner’s room that is not shared with another prisoner, or on the person of a prisoner, in a corrective services facility is evidence the thing was in the prisoner’s possession when it was found.
(sec.123-ssec.5) In this section— deal with , a thing, means make, possess, conceal or knowingly consume the thing.
- (a) a prohibited thing; or
- (b) something intended to be used by a prisoner to make a prohibited thing.
- (a) making or attempting to make a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to make it; or
- (b) possession of a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to possess it.