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Corrective Services Act 2006
sec.490ZHElectronic surveillance of corrective services facilities
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### sec.490ZH Electronic surveillance of corrective services facilities
This section applies if, immediately before the commencement, a prescribed surveillance device was in use at a corrective services facility to monitor and record activity in and around the facility.
From the commencement, the use of the prescribed surveillance device at the corrective services facility is taken to be authorised by the chief executive under section 173A.
Nothing in subsection (2) prevents the chief executive revoking the authorisation or imposing or changing requirements about the use, storage or destruction of recordings made by the prescribed surveillance device.
In this section—
prescribed surveillance device means a surveillance device prescribed for section 173A.
s 490ZH ins 2023 No. 14 s 35
(sec.490ZH-ssec.1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement, a prescribed surveillance device was in use at a corrective services facility to monitor and record activity in and around the facility.
(sec.490ZH-ssec.2) From the commencement, the use of the prescribed surveillance device at the corrective services facility is taken to be authorised by the chief executive under section 173A.
(sec.490ZH-ssec.3) Nothing in subsection (2) prevents the chief executive revoking the authorisation or imposing or changing requirements about the use, storage or destruction of recordings made by the prescribed surveillance device.
(sec.490ZH-ssec.4) In this section— prescribed surveillance device means a surveillance device prescribed for section 173A.