Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 15J

15J .         Limitation on functions of contract workers

        (1)         A contract worker cannot be authorised to perform a function that cannot be delegated to a person under section 8(1).

        (2)         A contract worker cannot be authorised to perform a superintendent’s function of a kind referred to in a provision of this Act that is set out in the Table to this subsection.

Table

s. 31(2)	s. 74(3)
s. 32(1)(b)	s. 75(1) and (2)
s. 47(1) and (2)	s. 76(1) and (2)
s. 71(1) and (2)	s. 77(1) and (2)
s. 73(a) (second reference to superintendent only)	s. 80(1) and (2)

        (3)         A contract worker cannot be authorised to perform a superintendent’s function of a kind referred to in Part X.

        (4)         A contract worker cannot be authorised to perform a prison officer’s function referred to in section 47(1) or (2).

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