CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 2014

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

CHAPTER 1--PRELIMINARY MATTERS

PART 1.1--FORMAL MATTERS

• 1 Short title  
• 2 Commencement  
• 3 Application of Criminal Code  

PART 1.2--INTERPRETATION

• 4 Definitions  
• 5 Offenders  
• 6 Prisoners  
• 7 Non-custodial offenders  
• 8 Committal or remand into the custody of the Commissioner  
• 9 Lawful custody and unlawful absence  
• 10 Meaning of General Manager  

CHAPTER 2--CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

PART 2.1--CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ESTABLISHMENTS

• 11 Correctional services establishments  
• 12 Correctional centres  
• 13 Police custody centres  
• 14 Court custody centres  
• 15 Community correctional facilities  

PART 2.2--CORRECTIONAL SERVICES OFFICERS

Division 1--General

• 16 Correctional services officers  

Division 2--Commissioner of Correctional Services

• 17 Commissioner of Correctional Services  
• 18 Functions of Commissioner  
• 19 Powers of Commissioner  
• 19A Commissioner to facilitate ICAC access  
• 20 Delegation  

Division 3--Other correctional services officers

• 21 General Managers of correctional centres  
• 22 General Managers of police custody centres and court custody centres  
• 23 Regional Managers  
• 24 Correctional officers  
• 25 Probation and parole officers  

PART 2.3--OFFICIAL VISITORS

Division 1--Appointment

• 26 Appointment of official visitors  
• 27 Vacation of office  
• 28 Termination of appointment  

Division 2--Visiting

• 29 Frequency of visits  
• 30 Inquiry and report by official visitor  
• 31 Official visitor not to interfere  
• 32 Minister's guidelines  

PART 2.4--GENERAL MATTERS

• 33 Volunteer functions  
• 34 Volunteers  
• 35 Correctional services dogs  
• 36 Compliance with Commissioner's Directions  
• 37 Alcohol and drug testing of officers and employees  

CHAPTER 3--CUSTODIAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

PART 3.1--MANAGEMENT OF PRISONERS

Division 1--Prisoners generally

• 38 Where prisoners to be held  
• 39 Movement of prisoners  
• 40 Separation of classes of prisoners  
• 41 General Manager may separate prisoner  
• 42 Behaviour generally  
Subdivision 2--Prisoner's property
• 43 Definition  
• 44 Commissioner to determine allowable items  
• 45 Possession of personal items  
• 46 Confiscation of prohibited things, things connected with offence  
Subdivision 3--Searches
• 47 Searches of prisoners  
• 48 Searches involving removal of clothing  
• 49 Intimate searches  
• 50 Conducting an intimate search  
Subdivision 4--Testing
• 51 Alcohol and drug testing of prisoners  
• 52 Buccal swabs  
• 53 Identity confirmation  
Subdivision 5--Work
• 54 Commissioner may direct prisoner to work  
• 55 Payment for work  
• 56 Commercial activity  
Subdivision 6--Children
• 57 Commissioner may permit child to reside with prisoner  
• 58 Child related social security benefits  
Subdivision 7--Religion and belief systems
• 59 Performance of religious practices  
• 60 Religious and spiritual advisors  
Subdivision 8--Release
• 61 Release from custody  
• 62 Early release  
• 63 Transport of prisoner on release  

Division 2--Youth

• 64 Transfer of youth prisoner to youth detention centre  
• 65 Transfer of youth back to custodial correctional facility  
• 67 Sentence continues to run  

Division 3--Misconduct

• 68 Definitions  
• 69 Misconduct  
• 70 Charge of misconduct  
• 71 Proceedings for charge of misconduct  
• 72 Representation of prisoner  
• 73 Decision  
• 74 Prisoner may request review  
• 75 Person to conduct review  
• 76 Decision on review  
• 77 Further review  
• 78 Penalties for misconduct  
• 79 Stay of imposition of penalty pending review  
• 80 Restitution for damage caused by misconduct  

Division 4--Health care for prisoners

• 81 Definitions  
• 82 Commissioner to arrange health care  
• 83 Access to and by health practitioners  
• 84 Access to health information  
• 85 Recommendations of health practitioner  
• 86 Prisoner may be taken to health care facility  
• 87 Arrangements with health care facilities  
• 88 Health care generally to be provided by NT Regional Health Services  
• 89 CEO Health to provide health information on request  
• 90 Birth to be at health care facility  
• 91 Notification of critical illness or injury or death  
• 92 Provision of health care without consent  
• 93 Administration of medication to prevent harm  

PART 3.2--VISITS AND COMMUNICATION

Division 1--Visits

• 94 Definitions  
• 95 Visit by priority visitors  
• 96 Visit by prisoner's legal practitioner  
• 97 Other visitors  
• 98 Commissioner may prohibit visits  
• 99 General Manager may refuse entry  
• 100 Person may be directed to leave custodial correctional facility  
• 101 Correctional officer may prevent entry or remove person  
• 102 Observation and recording visits  

Division 2--Telephone calls

• 103 Definitions  
• 104 Prisoner may make telephone calls  
• 105 Monitoring of telephone calls  

Division 3--Mail

• 106 Prisoner may send and receive mail  
• 107 Searches of mail  
• 108 Disclosure of information to correctional officers  

PART 3.3--LEAVE PERMITS

Division 1--General matters

• 109 Leave permits  
• 110 Duration of leave permit  
• 111 Conditions on leave permit  
• 112 Effect of leave permit on lawful custody  
• 113 Variation or revocation of leave permit  
• 114 Unlawfully absent prisoner may be returned to place authorised by permit  
• 115 Liability of Territory to maintain prisoner on leave  
• 116 Rules of natural justice do not apply  
• 117 Decisions not reviewable  

Division 2--General leave permits

• 118 Commissioner may issue general leave permit  
• 119 Prisoner employed while on leave  

Division 3--Interstate custodial leave permits

• 120 Definitions  
• 121 Corresponding interstate laws  
• 122 Issue of interstate custodial leave permit  
• 123 Effect of permit  
• 124 Appointment of escorts  
• 125 Variation or revocation of permit  
• 126 Notice to participating States and transit States  
• 127 Failure to comply with conditions of interstate custodial leave permit  
• 128 Effect of permit issued under corresponding law  
• 129 Escape from custody of interstate prisoner  

Division 4--Foreign legal matters leave permit

• 130 Commissioner may issue foreign legal matters leave permit  

Division 5--Administrative home detention permits

• 131 Definition  
• 132 Commissioner may issue permits  
• 133 Circumstances in which permit may be issued  
• 134 Duration of permit  
• 135 Compulsory conditions on permit  
• 136 Non-custodial offender provisions apply  

PART 3.4--MAINTAINING SECURITY AND GOOD ORDER -- USE OF FORCE

• 137 Correctional officer to maintain security and good order  
• 138 Limitations of use of force  
• 139 Firearms and other weapons  
• 140 Commissioner to manage use of force  
• 141 Arrest of unlawfully absent prisoner  

PART 3.5--GENERAL MATTERS ABOUT CUSTODIAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

Division 1--Matters relating to people and things at custodial correctional facility

• 142 Name and address to be provided  
• 143 Proof of identity  
• 144 Search of persons at facility  
• 145 Alcohol and drug testing of persons at facility  
• 146 Correctional officer may prevent entry or remove person  
• 147 Search of vehicles  
• 148 Search of custodial correctional facility  
• 149 Person loitering may be directed to leave vicinity  
• 150 Arrest of person suspected of offence  

Division 2--Searches, confiscation and confiscated things

• 151 Definitions  
• 152 Conduct of searches – use of devices and dogs  
• 153 Confiscation of protected/legal items  
• 154 Inspection of purported protected/legal items  
• 155 General Manager to deal with inspected items  
• 156 Nomination of nominated examiners  
• 157 Dealing with confiscated things  
• 158 Dealing with seized things  
• 159 Disclosure of information about unlawful or improper conduct  

Division 3--Administrative matters

• 160 General Manager may declare things to be prohibited  
• 161 Commissioner to maintain trust accounts  
• 162 Commissioner may charge fees  
• 163 Use of custodial correctional facilities to accommodate sheriff's detainees  
• 164 Act etc. to be made available  

CHAPTER 4--NON-CUSTODIAL OFFENDERS AND COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIESNOTES FOR CHAPTER

PART 4.1--NON-CUSTODIAL OFFENDERS

• 165 Definitions  
• 166 Non-custodial orders  
• 167 Approval of rehabilitation programs and work  
• 168 Approval of monitoring devices  
• 169 Direction by probation and parole officer  
• 170 Commissioner may direct use of monitoring device  
• 171 Compliance with monitoring order  
• 172 Alcohol and drug testing  

PART 4.2--COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

• 173 Name and address to be provided  
• 174 Proof of identity  

CHAPTER 5--GENERAL MATTERS

PART 5.1--OFFENCES

Division 1--Offences relating to prisoners

• 175 Possession of things by prisoners  
• 176 Nothing to pass to or from prisoner  
• 177 Leaving things for prisoner  
• 178 Communicating with prisoner  

Division 2--Offences relating to custodial correctional facility

• 179 Entering custodial correctional facility without authority  
• 180 Person directed to leave custodial correctional facility  
• 181 Person loitering in vicinity of custodial correctional facility  
• 182 Possession of things at custodial correctional facility  
• 183 Removal of property from a custodial correctional facility  
• 184 Unauthorised photograph or recording  
• 185 Failure to provide name and address  

Division 3--Administration related offences

• 186 Falsely representing to be correctional services officer  
• 187 Obstruction of correctional services officer  
• 188 Misleading information  
• 189 Confidentiality of information  

Division 4--Miscellaneous offences

• 190 Failure to provide name and address at community correctional facility  
• 191 Tampering with samples for alcohol/drug tests  
• 192 Name change by prisoner or parolee  
• 193 Harming correctional services dog  

PART 5.2--MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Division 1--Administrative matters

• 194 Approvals for identification systems  
• 195 Alcohol and drug testing  
• 196 Criminal history to be provided  
• 197 Records to be kept  
• 198 Damage to property – cost recoverable by Territory  

Division 2--Legal matters

• 199 Protection from liability  
• 200 Prosecutions  
• 201 Evidentiary matters in relation to prescribed alcohol/drug tests  
• 202 Civil proceedings  
• 203 Acquisition on just terms  

Division 3--Miscellaneous matters

• 204 Training in relation to dangerous drugs  
• 205 Commissioner's Directions  
• 206 Approved forms  
• 207 Regulations  

CHAPTER 6--REPEALS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

PART 6.1--REPEAL

• 208 Repeal  

PART 6.2--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 2014

• 209 Definitions  
• 210 Custodial correctional facilities  
• 211 Correctional services officers  
• 212 Official visitors  
• 213 Misconduct – existing charges  
• 214 Misconduct – prior conduct may be charged under this Act  
• 215 Leave  
• 216 Prisoner's trust accounts  
• 217 Commissioner's Directions  
• 218 Regulations  
• 219 Other statutory instruments  
• 220 Continuation of ongoing things  
• 221 Court orders, warrants of commitment  
• 222 Definition of prisoner  
• 223 Confidentiality of information  
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