9Treatment of other people in custody

9 Treatment of other people in custody (1) This section applies to a person (other than a sentenced offender or remandee) detained in lawful custody under a territory law or a law of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory. 1 a person held on a warrant issued under the Royal Commissions Act 1991, s 35 (Apprehension of witnesses failing to appear) 2 an interstate prisoner on leave in the ACT held in custody overnight (2) Functions under this Act in relation to the person must be exercised, as far as practicable, as follows: (a) to recognise and facilitate the purpose for which the person is detained; (b) to respect and protect the person’s human rights; (c) to ensure the person’s decent, humane and just treatment; (d) to preclude torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. (3) Also, functions under this Act in relation to the person must be exercised, as far as practicable, as follows: (a) to ensure the person is not subject to punishment only because of the conditions of detention; (b) to ensure the person’s conditions in detention comply with the requirements under the Corrections Management Act 2007. (4) This Act applies in relation to the person as a full-time detainee, with any changes prescribed by regulation.