Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 15I

15I .         Contract workers’ functions

        (1)         The chief executive officer may authorise a contract worker who holds a permit, to perform any of the functions that —

            (a)         a superintendent;

            (b)         a prison officer; or

            (c)         an other officer,

                has under this Act except a function referred to in section 15J.

        (2)         An authorisation must be in writing and may be made subject to such conditions and limitations specified in the authorisation as the chief executive officer thinks fit.

        (3)         A contract worker is not to decide whether a prisoner may be detained in custody under section 32(1)(a).

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