Western Australian Consolidated Acts

COURT SECURITY AND CUSTODIAL SERVICES ACT 1999 - SECT 27

27 .         Responsibility of certain authorised persons for escapes etc.

        (1)         A person who is authorised to exercise a power set out in Division 1 of Schedule 2 is liable to answer for —

            (a)         the escape of a person in custody while the person in custody is in the authorised person’s charge, or is being moved, or is being prepared to be moved, by the authorised person; and

            (b)         the absence without leave of a person apprehended under the Mental Health Act who is in the authorised person’s charge at a lock-up.

        (2)         A person who is authorised to exercise a power set out in Division 3 of Schedule 2 is liable to answer for the absence of an intoxicated detainee while the intoxicated detainee is in the authorised person’s charge, or is being moved, or is being prepared to be moved, by the authorised person.