Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 15F

15F .         Administrators and reporting officers may have access to certain prisons, persons, vehicles and documents

        (1)         An administrator and a reporting officer appointed under section 9 may, at any time, (with any assistants, prison dogs and equipment that the administrator or reporting officer thinks are necessary) have free and unfettered access to a prison, vehicle, person or document referred to in section 15E(2) for the purpose of enabling the administrator or reporting officer to perform his or her functions.

        (2)         A person must not hinder or resist an administrator or reporting officer when the administrator or reporting officer is exercising or attempting to exercise a power under subsection (1).

        Penalty: $20 000.

        (3)         Nothing in this section limits any entitlement that a person, under a law, has to have access to a place, vehicle, person or document referred to in section 15E(2).

        [Section 15F inserted by No. 43 of 1999 s. 7.]