Division Div 5 - Prisons Act 1981 - Intervention in, and termination of, contracts

Div 5Intervention in, and termination of, contracts

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Division 5 — Intervention in, and termination of, contracts

15W. Intervention in contracts 34

15X. Termination or suspension of contracts 34

15Y. Administrator where intervention in contract 35

15Z. Administrator where termination or suspension of contract 36

15ZA. Administrator’s functions 36

15ZB. Compliance with administrator’s directions 37

15ZC. Requisitioning property on intervention in, or termination of, contract 37

Part IV — Custody, removal and release of prisoners

Prisoners in custody of chief executive officer 39
Reckoning of sentence 40
Conveyance of prisoners for trial etc. 40
Warrants of commitment 41
Proof of imprisonment 41
Prisoner assigned to external facility in lawful custody 42
Prisoner absent under permit in lawful custody 42
Prisoner attending legal or investigative proceedings in lawful custody 42
Removal of prisoner to another prison 43
Chief executive officer and superintendent’s powers of early discharge 44
Prison offences by prisoners due for release 44
Provision of fare home on release 45

Part V — Management, control and security of prisons

Chief executive officer may make rules 47
Superintendents of prisons 48
Superintendent may issue standing orders 48
Search of prisoners and taking of things found 49
Restraint 50
Separate confinement 50
Medical examination for evidentiary purposes 51

46A. Inspection of medical records and mandatory taking of blood or other body sample where prison officer may have been exposed to infectious disease 52

46B. Review of s. 46A 52

Use of firearms 53
Use of force on serious breach of security 54
Power to search and question persons entering prison 55

49A. Use of dogs 57

49B. Possession of certain items by prison officers 58