120Cost of telephone calls and faxes

120 Cost of telephone calls and faxes

120 Cost of telephone calls and faxes

(1) The cost of a telephone call made by an inmate (including the telephone component of the cost of sending a fax) is to be met by the inmate.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to—

(a) the first local call made in any week by a convicted inmate, or

(b) the first 3 local calls made in any week by an unconvicted inmate or civil inmate, or

(c) any call made to the Office of the Ombudsman, the Independent Commission Against Corruption or the Legal Aid Commission, or

(d) any call of a kind that the Commissioner directs is to be met by Corrective Services NSW, or

(e) any call whose cost is met by the receiver.

(3) An inmate must pay an amount for each page, to be determined by the Commissioner, for any fax sent to, and accepted by, the inmate.

(4) In this clause, local call means a telephone call that is charged for at local call rates.