CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 145 Taking prohibited things etc into correctional centre
CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 145
Taking prohibited things etc into correctional centre(1) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) takes or sends a prohibited thing into a correctional centre; or
(b) gives or sends a prohibited thing to a detainee; or
(c) removes a prohibited thing from a correctional centre.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
(2) For subsection (1), send does not require personal carriage of the prohibited thing into the correctional centre or for a prohibited thing to be personally given to a detainee.
Examples
1 a prohibited thing being dropped into a correctional centre by a drone or remotely piloted aircraft
2 a prohibited thing being thrown into a correctional centre
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any action approved by the director-general.
(4) In this section:
"prohibited thing "includes something the person intends a detainee to use for making a prohibited thing or use otherwise in relation to a prohibited thing.