sec.291Official visitor powers

### sec.291 Official visitor powers An official visitor assigned to a corrective services facility may— enter the facility at any time, except when a declaration of emergency is in force for the facility under section 271B ; and on request, have access to a place where the official visitor may interview a prisoner out of the hearing of other persons; and inspect and copy, at the facility, any document kept under this Act relating to a complaint the official visitor is investigating, other than a document to which legal professional privilege attaches. The chief executive must give an official visitor reasonable help to exercise a power given to the official visitor under this Act. s 291 amd 2023 No. 14 s 52 sch 1 (sec.291-ssec.1) An official visitor assigned to a corrective services facility may— enter the facility at any time, except when a declaration of emergency is in force for the facility under section 271B ; and on request, have access to a place where the official visitor may interview a prisoner out of the hearing of other persons; and inspect and copy, at the facility, any document kept under this Act relating to a complaint the official visitor is investigating, other than a document to which legal professional privilege attaches. (sec.291-ssec.2) The chief executive must give an official visitor reasonable help to exercise a power given to the official visitor under this Act. - (a) enter the facility at any time, except when a declaration of emergency is in force for the facility under section 271B ; and - (b) on request, have access to a place where the official visitor may interview a prisoner out of the hearing of other persons; and - (c) inspect and copy, at the facility, any document kept under this Act relating to a complaint the official visitor is investigating, other than a document to which legal professional privilege attaches.