236OResidential facility officers

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).

(2) The functions of residential facility officers are to be as determined from time to time by the Commissioner.

(3) Those functions may include functions of a correctional officer.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(7) (Repealed)

s 236O: Ins 2008 No 108, Sch 1 [32]. Am 2018 No 87, Sch 1.9 [13].