Section 294 - Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Regulation 2014 - Issue of firearms to correctional officers not at armed posts

294Issue of firearms to correctional officers not at armed posts

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294 Issue of firearms to correctional officers not at armed posts

(1) The governor of a correctional centre or the principal security officer may (by a direction given generally or in any particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers who are not stationed at armed posts for use in connection with—

(a) the escorting of inmates, or

(b) the maintenance of a guard outside a correctional centre.

(2) The Commissioner may (by a direction given in a particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers for use in connection with patrols of the perimeter of a correctional centre.

(3) The governor of a correctional centre may (by a direction given in a particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers who are not stationed at armed posts—

(a) for use in connection with the quelling or control of a correctional centre disturbance or riot, or

(b) for any other purpose for which the governor considers it necessary that firearms be issued.

(4) The following persons may (by a direction given in a particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers who are not stationed at armed posts for use in connection with the conveyance of money or other property within a correctional centre or between a correctional centre and other places—

(a) the Commissioner,

(b) the principal security officer,

(c) the governor of a correctional centre.