sec.5Breaches of discipline— Act , s 113

sec.5 Breaches of discipline— Act , s 113

For section 113 (1) of the Act , each of the following acts or omissions, if committed by a prisoner, is a breach of discipline— contravening a lawful direction of a corrective services officer; wilfully carrying out, in a careless or negligent way, something the prisoner is lawfully directed to do by a corrective services officer; making something not expressly or impliedly approved as something the prisoner may make; possessing or concealing something not expressly or impliedly approved as something the prisoner may possess; knowingly consuming something not expressly or impliedly approved as something the prisoner may consume; wilfully consuming or inhaling something likely to induce an intoxicated state, other than medication taken as prescribed by a health practitioner; without the approval of a corrective services officer or health practitioner— possessing or taking medication; or giving or administering medication to another prisoner; using abusive, indecent, insulting, obscene, offensive or threatening language in someone else’s presence; acting in an indecent or offensive way in someone else’s presence; acting in a way contrary to the security or good order of a corrective services facility; making a complaint, other than a complaint to an official visitor or the chief inspector, about an act or omission of another prisoner or a corrective services officer, that is frivolous or vexatious; organising or taking part in gambling; without a corrective services officer’s approval, altering the prisoner’s appearance, or another prisoner’s appearance, so it significantly differs from the prisoner’s appearance described in the record kept under section 10 of the Act ; wilfully damaging, destroying, removing or otherwise interfering with a video camera or other device used for monitoring part of the prison; wilfully damaging or destroying clothing issued to the prisoner or another prisoner; wilfully damaging or destroying property rented by the prisoner or another prisoner; wilfully damaging or destroying any property that is part of a corrective services facility, or other property of the State in the facility; obtaining another prisoner’s property, other than in circumstances expressly approved, or intentionally damaging another prisoner’s property; sending mail purporting to be privileged mail if it is not privileged mail; giving a positive test sample or being taken, under section 43 (4) of the Act , to have given a positive test sample; attempting to do anything mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (s) . s 5 amd 2023 Act No. 14 s 52 sch 1

• (a) contravening a lawful direction of a corrective services officer;
• (b) wilfully carrying out, in a careless or negligent way, something the prisoner is lawfully directed to do by a corrective services officer;
• (c) making something not expressly or impliedly approved as something the prisoner may make;