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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of prisons - Work and earnings

67: Earnings of employed prisoner

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"Money earned by prisoners who work while in prison or on temporary release"

If you are a prisoner and you work while you are temporarily released from custody under section 62, your employer must pay your wages to the chief executive. The chief executive will then put the money to your credit. You will get to keep the money, but it will be held by the chief executive.

If you are a prisoner who is working for yourself, you must pay some of your earnings to the chief executive at the times they tell you to. The chief executive will decide how much you need to pay.

If someone else is collecting money for you because you are working for yourself, they must pay some of that money to the chief executive after taking out any fees they are owed. The chief executive will decide how much they need to pay, and it will be put to your credit.

This applies to you if you are temporarily released from custody under section 62 to work for yourself, or if you are working for yourself while you are in prison.

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Part 2Corrections system
Establishment and operation of prisons: Work and earnings

67Earnings of employed prisoner

  1. The net amount of wages or salary payable to any prisoner for work done by the prisoner during any period or periods for which the prisoner is temporarily released from custody under section 62 must be paid to the chief executive by the prisoner's employer, in any manner that is agreed between the chief executive and the employer, to the credit of the prisoner.

  2. Every prisoner described in subsection (4) must pay to the chief executive to the credit of the prisoner, at the times that the chief executive directs, those sums on account of his or her earnings in that employment that the chief executive determines.

  3. A person who receives money on behalf of a prisoner engaged in self-employment must, after deducting any commission, pay to the chief executive to the credit of the prisoner, those sums on account of the prisoner's earnings in that employment that the chief executive determines.

  4. Subsections (2) and (3) apply to a prisoner who is—

  5. temporarily released from custody under section 62 to engage in self-employment; or
    1. engaged in self-employment at the prison.

      Compare
      • 1954 No 51 s 21C(1), (3)
      Notes
      • Section 67(2): replaced, on , by section 16 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 5).
      • Section 67(3): inserted, on , by section 16 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 5).
      • Section 67(4): inserted, on , by section 16 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 5).