Queensland Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 189

189 Declaration concerning GEO during interim period

(1) During the interim period—

(a) GEO is taken to have been a government service entity and a prescribed service entity under section 2(9); and

(b) for section 2(2), the functions of GEO are taken to have been—

(i) to conduct the part of the operations of the Queensland Corrective Services Commission that GEO is engaged to conduct under the Corrective Services (Administration) Act 1988, section 19(2)(f) ; or

(ii) the functions that GEO is authorised, by the chief executive (corrective services), to perform under the Corrective Services Act 2006, section 272 ; and

(c) for section 2(2), the functions of a GEO employee are taken to have been—

(i) the functions of a custodial correctional officer the employee performs for GEO when GEO is performing the prescribed functions mentioned in paragraph (b)(i); or

(ii) the functions of a corrective services officer that the employee performs for GEO when GEO is performing the prescribed functions mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii).

(2) In this section—

"GEO" means GEO Group Australia Pty Ltd ABN 24 051 130 600.

"interim period" means the period starting on 15 January 2004 and ending on the commencement.