Western Australian Consolidated Acts

COURT SECURITY AND CUSTODIAL SERVICES ACT 1999 - SECT 15

15 .         Security etc. of persons in custody at certain other custodial places

        (1)         The CEO is responsible for the security, control, safety, care and welfare of a person in court custody who is at a hospital or other place that is attended by the person in court custody for medical treatment if a court has ordered that the person be placed in the charge of a person who is authorised to exercise a power set out in clause 3(1)(c) of Schedule 2.

        (2)         The CEO is responsible for the security, control, safety, care and welfare of a prisoner or detainee who is at —

            (a)         a hospital or other place that is outside a prison or detention centre and attended by the prisoner or detainee for medical treatment;

            (b)         a place to which the prisoner has been removed under section 28 of the Prisons Act 1981 ;

            (c)         a place attended by the prisoner under section 83 of the Prisons Act 1981 ; or

            (d)         a place attended by the detainee under section 188(4) of the Young Offenders Act 1994 ,

                if, under the Prisons Act 1981 , the Young Offenders Act 1994 , or an order, direction, warrant or other instrument under those Acts or any other law, the person has been placed in the charge of a person who is authorised to exercise a power set out in clause 2(1) of Schedule 2.

        (3)         The CEO is responsible for the security, control, safety, care and welfare of a person in custody who is at a hospital or other place that is attended by the person in custody for medical treatment if an authorised person has taken charge of the person in custody in response to a request under section 71(b).