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CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 56AB Legal custody of prisoners and detainees transferred to institutions and designated mental health services

CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 56AB

Legal custody of prisoners and detainees transferred to institutions and designated mental health services

    (1)     This section applies if a prisoner in a prison or a person detained in a police gaol is transferred from the prison or police gaol to—

S. 56AB(1)(a) substituted by No. 26/2014 s. 455(Sch. item 6.4), amended by No. 39/2022 s. 805(1).

        (a)     a designated mental health service within the meaning of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 in accordance with that Act;

S. 56AB(1)(b) amended by No. 23/2006 s. 235(a), repealed by No. 19/2019 s. 256(1).

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S. 56AB(1)(c) substituted by No. 23/2006 s. 235(b).

        (c)     a residential treatment facility within the meaning of the Disability Act 2006 in accordance with that Act.

    (2)     On a transfer referred to in subsection (1) of a prisoner or person, the prisoner or person is deemed to be in the legal custody of—

S. 56AB(2)(a) amended by Nos 23/2006 s. 235(c), 26/2014 s. 455(Sch. item 6.5(a)), 39/2022 s. 805(2).

        (a)     the person specified as the person who is to have the custody of the prisoner or person under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 , the Disability Act 2006 or the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 ;

S. 56AB(2)(b) amended by Nos 26/2014 s. 455(Sch. item 6.5), 39/2022 s. 805(2).

        (b)     in the case of a transfer referred to in subsection (1)(a), if no person is specified under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 , the authorised psychiatrist of the designated mental health service;

S. 56AB(2)(c) amended by Nos 23/2006 s. 235(c), 19/2019 s. 256(2).

        (c)     in the case of a transfer referred to in subsection (1)(c), if no person is specified under the Disability Act 2006 , the chief executive of the place to which the prisoner or person is transferred.

    (3)     A transfer referred to in subsection (1) of a prisoner or person occurs when the person who is to have legal custody of the prisoner or person, or a person acting under lawful authority on behalf of the person who is to have legal custody, accepts physical custody of the prisoner or person.

Note to s. 56AB amended by Nos 23/2006 s. 235(d), 48/2006 s. 42(Sch. item 8.3), 26/2014 s. 455(Sch. item 6.6), 39/2022 s. 805(3).

Note

Specific provision for the transfer or return of prisoners and other people can be found in Chapter 5 and sections 540, 555, 571 and 572 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 , in sections 161, 166, 177 and 178 of the Disability Act 2006 and in Part 5.6 of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (this list is not exhaustive).

S. 56AC inserted by No. 2/2005 s. 6.