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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Escort services and courtroom custodial services

173: Access must be given

You could also call this:

"Letting security monitors check on prisoners and staff to keep everyone safe"

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If you are a security contractor, you must make sure a security monitor can access certain things at any time. This includes all prisoners under the control of your security officers. You must also let the security monitor access your security officers when they are on duty. The security monitor must be able to see all records you hold that relate to people in your control or people who work for you as security officers.

The security monitor can access records about people who are or have been in your control, or people who are or have been your security officers. However, there is an exception for medical records. If a security monitor wants to see someone's medical records, that person must agree to let them see it.

You have to follow these rules to ensure the security monitor can do their job properly, but you must respect people's privacy, especially when it comes to their medical records.

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Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Escort services and courtroom custodial services

173Access must be given

  1. Every security contractor must ensure that any security monitor has free and unfettered access at all times to—

  2. all prisoners who are under the control of security officers employed by that contractor; and
    1. all security officers employed by that security contractor, but only when they are actually on duty; and
      1. all records held by the security contractor and that relate to—
        1. any person who is or has been in the control of any security officer employed by that security contractor; or
          1. any person who is or has been employed by that security contractor as a security officer.

          2. Despite subsection (1), a security monitor may not be given access to any medical records relating to any person referred to in subsection (1) unless the person concerned consents to that access.

          Compare
          • 1954 No 51 s 36ZE