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CORRECTIVE SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 123 Dealing with prohibited thing

CORRECTIVE SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 123

Dealing with prohibited thing

123 Dealing with prohibited thing

(1) A regulation may prescribe a thing to be a prohibited thing.
(2) A prisoner in a corrective services facility must not deal, or attempt to deal, with—
(a) a prohibited thing; or
(b) something intended to be used by a prisoner to make a prohibited thing.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply to—
(a) making or attempting to make a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to make it; or
(b) possession of a thing if the prisoner has the chief executive’s written approval to possess it.
(4) The finding of a prohibited thing in a prisoner’s room that is not shared with another prisoner, or on the person of a prisoner, in a corrective services facility is evidence the thing was in the prisoner’s possession when it was found.
(5) In this section—


"deal with" , a thing, means make, possess, conceal or knowingly consume the thing.