New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 7

7 Payments to inmates

(1) The Commissioner may, out of money provided by Parliament or otherwise legally available, make payments to inmates for any reason (including for work done).

(2) Payment for work done by inmates of a managed correctional centre may not be made by the management company for the correctional centre otherwise than in accordance with a scheme approved by the Commissioner.

(3) The payment of an inmate by the Commissioner under this section for work done (whether or not at the direction of the Commissioner) does not constitute employment of, or a contract of service with, the inmate by the Crown or any other person, and accordingly an inmate who undertakes any such paid work is not:

(a) a worker for the purposes of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 , the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 , the Annual Holidays Act 1944 or the Long Service Leave Act 1955 , or

(b) an employee (however described) for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 or any Act or other law.