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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Detection, interception, etc, of radiocommunications within prison boundaries

189C: Recordings of unauthorised communications

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"Recording secret phone calls or messages if they might be about a crime"

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If you are a prison manager, you can record an unauthorised electronic communication if you believe it has information about a crime. You can give this record to an enforcement officer or to the chief executive or another employee of the department. This is allowed if you have reasonable grounds to think the communication contains information about a crime or an attempted crime.

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Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Detection, interception, etc, of radiocommunications within prison boundaries

189CRecordings of unauthorised communications

  1. If a prison manager believes on reasonable grounds that an unauthorised electronic communication contains information relating to the commission or attempted commission of an offence, a record of that communication may be made and given—

  2. to an enforcement officer:
    1. to the chief executive or any other employee of the department.

      Notes
      • Section 189C: inserted, on , by section 34 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 3).