New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 10

10 Segregated custody of inmates

(1) The Commissioner may direct that an inmate be held in segregated custody if of the opinion that the association of the inmate with other inmates constitutes or is likely to constitute a threat to:

(a) the personal safety of any other person, or

(b) the security of a correctional centre, or

(c) good order and discipline within a correctional centre.

(2) The general manager of a correctional centre may exercise the Commissioner’s functions under this section in relation to the correctional centre and, on each occasion he or she does so, must notify the Commissioner of that fact and of the grounds on which the segregated custody direction was given.

(3) A segregated custody direction given by the general manager of a correctional centre does not apply in relation to any other correctional centre.

(4) Subsection (3) is subject to section 15.