Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Management of prisons

199J: Release of prisoner information to and by contract prisons

You could also call this:

"Sharing information about prisoners in private prisons"

When you are in a contract prison, the people in charge of the prison or the government department can look at information about you. This is so they can do their job properly. They can look at information that is held by the contract prison or by the government department, as long as it is about you or the contract prison.

The people who work at the contract prison can also look at information about you that is held by the government department. This is so they can do their job properly. The government department and the contract prison must follow the rules of the Official Information Act 1982 when they look at or share information about you.

If the law says the government department can look at or share information about you, then the contract prison can do the same thing. The boss of the government department can also ask the contract prison to look at or share information about you.

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199I: Prison management contracts to be presented to House of Representatives, or

"The Government must show the House of Representatives new or changed prison management contracts within 12 days."

199K: Transferring staff who are contributors to Government Superannuation Fund, or

"Staff who contribute to the Government Superannuation Fund can keep doing so if they work in a contract prison"

Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Management of prisons

199JRelease of prisoner information to and by contract prisons

For the purposes of enabling the chief executive or any staff member of the department to exercise or perform any of his or her powers, duties, or functions, the chief executive or any staff member of the department may access any information that is held (or deemed for the purposes of the Official Information Act 1982 to be held) by a contract prison and that relates to that contract prison or to any prisoner.
For the purposes of enabling any staff member of a contract prison to exercise or perform any of his or her powers, duties, or functions, any staff member of a contract prison may have access to any information that is held (or deemed for the purposes of the Official Information Act 1982 to be held) by the department and that relates to any prisoner.
If the department is authorised by any enactment to access or to disclose information relating to any prisoner,—
a staff member of a contract prison is authorised to access or disclose that information as if the contract prison were a part of the department; and
the chief executive may require the contractor to access or disclose that information.

Compare

1954 No 51 s 41G

Notes

Section 199J: inserted, on 8 December 2009, by section 5 of the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 59).