CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 235
Functions of correctional officers
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 235
Functions of correctional officers
235 Functions of correctional officers
(1) The functions of the various
ranks and classes of correctional officers are to be as determined from time
to time by the Commissioner.
(2) Commissioned correctional officers must at
all times exercise their functions in connection with the administration and
management of correctional complexes and correctional centres in such manner
as the Commissioner, having regard to current circumstances, may from time to
time direct.
(3) The Commissioner may, by order in writing, authorise any
person to exercise such functions of a correctional officer as are specified
in the order, subject to such conditions as are so specified.
(4) The
functions so specified may include not only functions under this Act but also
functions under any other Act or law.
(5) In the exercise of any such
function, a person so authorised is taken to be, for all purposes, a
correctional officer.
