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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
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#### 236O Residential facility officers
236O Residential facility officers
> > (1) The Commissioner may appoint any member of staff of Corrective Services NSW to supervise persons residing at a residential facility or to exercise other functions in relation to a residential facility (referred to as a residential facility officer).
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> > (2) The functions of residential facility officers are to be as determined from time to time by the Commissioner.
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> > (3) Those functions may include functions of a correctional officer.
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> > (4) To the extent that the functions of a residential facility officer include the functions of a correctional officer, the residential facility officer has all the immunities of a correctional officer.
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> > (5) A residential facility officer may exercise a function of a correctional officer only in respect of the residential facility where the residential facility officer is employed.
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> > (6) Residential facility officers must at all times exercise their functions in such manner as the Commissioner, having regard to current circumstances, may from time to time direct.
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> > (7) (Repealed)
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> **s 236O:** Ins 2008 No 108, Sch 1 \[32\]. Am 2018 No 87, Sch 1.9 \[13\].