46Trust account and purchasing system for prisoners

1. The chief executive must ensure that 1 or more trust accounts in which money belonging to prisoners is held exclusively for particular prisoners are opened and operated.

2. A trust account must be operated and maintained in the prescribed manner.

3. A prisoner must be paid all the money held exclusively for the prisoner in a trust account when the prisoner is discharged from a prison.

4. If a prisoner dies while in legal custody,—

5. the entries in any trust account that relate to the prisoner must be balanced as at the date of death; and
6. any money held exclusively for that prisoner must be paid to the executor or administrator of the prisoner's estate.

7. The chief executive must ensure that, in respect of each corrections prison, a purchasing system is established through which prisoners may buy approved items.

8. A prisoner may buy an item through the purchasing system only if the prisoner—

9. uses money held exclusively for him or her in the trust account; and
10. has enough money in the trust account to buy it.