Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The CEO is
responsible for ensuring that the means of moving persons in custody and
intoxicated detainees between custodial places are available as an
alternative, or in addition, to the means used by police officers, prison
officers and other persons who move persons in custody or intoxicated
detainees between custodial places.
(2) The CEO is
responsible for the security, control, safety, care and welfare of a person in
custody who is being moved, or being prepared to be moved, between custodial
places —
(a) by
an authorised person in response to a request under section 72; or
(b)
under the Prisons Act 1981 , the Young Offenders Act 1994 , the
Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 or an order, direction,
warrant or other instrument under those Acts or any other law, by a person who
is authorised to exercise a power set out in clause 2(2), 3(2), 4 or 5 of
Schedule 2, as is relevant to the case.
(3) The CEO is
responsible for the security, control, safety, care and welfare of an
intoxicated detainee who is being moved, or being prepared to be moved,
between custodial places by an authorised person in response to a request
under section 81.
[Section 16 amended by No. 84 of 2004
s. 82.]