CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 15 Exclusions from notified corrections policies and operating procedures

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 15

    (1)     The director-general may exclude from a corrections policy or operating procedure notified or available for inspection in accordance with section 14 any matter that the director-general believes, on reasonable grounds, would be likely to disclose—

        (a)     information that may endanger public safety or undermine justice, security or good order at a correctional centre; or

        (b)     anything prescribed by regulation.

    (2)     If subsection (1) applies to a corrections policy or operating procedure—

        (a)     the policy or procedure must contain a statement about the effect of this section; and

        (b)     the excluded matter must be available for inspection, on request, by any of the following:

              (i)     a judge or magistrate;

              (ii)     a member of the Legislative Assembly;

              (iii)     an official visitor;

              (iv)     the inspector of correctional services;

              (v)     the human rights commissioner;

              (vi)     the public advocate;

              (vii)     the ombudsman;

              (viii)     the integrity commissioner;

              (ix)     anyone else prescribed by regulation.

Note     Territory laws apply to a delegate of a person in the exercise of a delegation as if the delegate were the person who appointed the delegate (see Legislation Act

, s 239 (2)).