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SERIOUS OFFENDERS ACT 2018 (NO. 27 OF 2018) - SECT 204

Visit by independent prison visitor

    (1)     An officer in charge of a residential treatment facility must ensure that offenders residing in the facility and officers are informed of the time and date of an independent prison visitor's visit to the facility as soon as practicable after the officer in charge is notified of the independent prison visitor's intention to visit the facility.

    (2)     The officer in charge of a residential treatment facility must—

        (a)     bring to the attention of the independent prison visitor the names of officers and offenders who have requested to see the independent prison visitor; and

        (b)     make the necessary arrangements for the independent prison visitor to meet and speak with those officers and offenders.

    (3)     An independent prison visitor may—

        (a)     speak with an officer in private; and

        (b)     subject to a direction of the officer in charge made in the interest of the security of the facility, speak with an offender out of the hearing, but in the sight, of a supervision officer or a specified officer.



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