sec.124Other offences

### sec.124 Other offences A prisoner must not— prepare to escape from lawful custody; or See the Criminal Code , section 142 for the offence of escaping from lawful custody. assault or obstruct a staff member who is performing a function or exercising a power under this Act or is in a corrective services facility; or disobey a lawful direction of the proper officer of a court or a person assisting the proper officer of a court; or organise, attempt to organise or take part in any opposition to authority under this Act, whether inside or outside a corrective services facility; or threaten to do grievous bodily harm to someone else; or unlawfully kill or injure, or attempt to unlawfully kill or injure, a corrective services dog; or obstruct a corrective services dog working under the control of a corrective services officer who is performing duties under this Act; or assume another identity or adopt a disguise in order to commit an offence against this Act; or wilfully and unlawfully destroy, damage, remove or otherwise interfere with any part of a corrective services facility or any property in the facility; or without lawful authority, abstract or remove information from, copy or destroy information in, or make a false entry in, a record kept under this Act; or without reasonable excuse, be unlawfully at large; or without reasonable excuse, be in a restricted area of a corrective services facility. Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment. If a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) (l) relates to a restricted area prescribed by regulation and access to the area is not controlled by a corrective services officer, the prosecution must prove the prisoner was given sufficient warning to inform the prisoner that the area is a restricted area or that the prisoner must not access the area. Without limiting subsection (2) , a prisoner is taken to have been given a warning informing the prisoner of the restricted area at a corrective services facility if— a notice is displayed in the area identifying it as a restricted area; or the prisoner was informed, when admitted to the facility, about the restricted areas for the facility; or a corrective services officer gave the prisoner a direction not to access the area. In this section— restricted area , for a corrective services facility, means— each roof of the facility; or any other part of the facility prescribed by regulation for this definition. s 124 amd 2023 No. 14 s 14 ; 2024 No. 25 s 3 sch 1 (sec.124-ssec.1) A prisoner must not— prepare to escape from lawful custody; or See the Criminal Code , section 142 for the offence of escaping from lawful custody. assault or obstruct a staff member who is performing a function or exercising a power under this Act or is in a corrective services facility; or disobey a lawful direction of the proper officer of a court or a person assisting the proper officer of a court; or organise, attempt to organise or take part in any opposition to authority under this Act, whether inside or outside a corrective services facility; or threaten to do grievous bodily harm to someone else; or unlawfully kill or injure, or attempt to unlawfully kill or injure, a corrective services dog; or obstruct a corrective services dog working under the control of a corrective services officer who is performing duties under this Act; or assume another identity or adopt a disguise in order to commit an offence against this Act; or wilfully and unlawfully destroy, damage, remove or otherwise interfere with any part of a corrective services facility or any property in the facility; or without lawful authority, abstract or remove information from, copy or destroy information in, or make a false entry in, a record kept under this Act; or without reasonable excuse, be unlawfully at large; or without reasonable excuse, be in a restricted area of a corrective services facility. Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment. (sec.124-ssec.2) If a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) (l) relates to a restricted area prescribed by regulation and access to the area is not controlled by a corrective services officer, the prosecution must prove the prisoner was given sufficient warning to inform the prisoner that the area is a restricted area or that the prisoner must not access the area. (sec.124-ssec.3) Without limiting subsection (2) , a prisoner is taken to have been given a warning informing the prisoner of the restricted area at a corrective services facility if— a notice is displayed in the area identifying it as a restricted area; or the prisoner was informed, when admitted to the facility, about the restricted areas for the facility; or a corrective services officer gave the prisoner a direction not to access the area. (sec.124-ssec.4) In this section— restricted area , for a corrective services facility, means— each roof of the facility; or any other part of the facility prescribed by regulation for this definition. - (a) prepare to escape from lawful custody; or Note— See the Criminal Code , section 142 for the offence of escaping from lawful custody. - (b) assault or obstruct a staff member who is performing a function or exercising a power under this Act or is in a corrective services facility; or - (c) disobey a lawful direction of the proper officer of a court or a person assisting the proper officer of a court; or - (d) organise, attempt to organise or take part in any opposition to authority under this Act, whether inside or outside a corrective services facility; or - (e) threaten to do grievous bodily harm to someone else; or - (f) unlawfully kill or injure, or attempt to unlawfully kill or injure, a corrective services dog; or - (g) obstruct a corrective services dog working under the control of a corrective services officer who is performing duties under this Act; or - (h) assume another identity or adopt a disguise in order to commit an offence against this Act; or - (i) wilfully and unlawfully destroy, damage, remove or otherwise interfere with any part of a corrective services facility or any property in the facility; or - (j) without lawful authority, abstract or remove information from, copy or destroy information in, or make a false entry in, a record kept under this Act; or - (k) without reasonable excuse, be unlawfully at large; or - (l) without reasonable excuse, be in a restricted area of a corrective services facility. - (a) a notice is displayed in the area identifying it as a restricted area; or - (b) the prisoner was informed, when admitted to the facility, about the restricted areas for the facility; or - (c) a corrective services officer gave the prisoner a direction not to access the area. - (a) each roof of the facility; or - (b) any other part of the facility prescribed by regulation for this definition.