New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 6

6 Work performed by inmates

(1) The general manager of a correctional centre may make an order directing any convicted inmate in the correctional centre to carry out such work as the general manager considers suitable.

(2) The general manager may direct a convicted inmate, or such classes or groups of convicted inmates as the Commissioner may from time to time determine, to carry out community service work, or any work for the Department or a public or local authority:

(a) within the correctional centre in which the inmate is imprisoned, or

(b) within the correctional complex in which the inmate is imprisoned but outside the correctional centre, or

(c) outside the correctional complex in which the inmate is imprisoned.

(3) An inmate is not required to carry out work that the inmate is not capable of carrying out.