Western Australian Current Acts

PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 14

14 .         Powers and duties of prison officers

        (1)         Every prison officer —

            (a)         has a responsibility to maintain the security of the prison where he is ordered to serve; and

            (b)         is liable to answer for the escape of a prisoner placed in his charge or for whom when on duty he has a responsibility; and

            (c)         shall obey all lawful orders given to him by the superintendent or other officer under whose control or supervision he is placed and the orders and directions of the chief executive officer; and

            (d)         may issue to a prisoner such orders as are necessary for the purposes of this Act, including the security, good order, or management of a prison, and may use such force as he believes on reasonable grounds to be necessary to ensure that his or other lawful orders are complied with.

        (2)         A person who is authorised to exercise a power set out in clauses 2 and 11(3) of Schedule 2 to the Court Security and Custodial Services Act 1999 may issue to a prisoner such orders as are necessary for the purposes of the provisions of this Act set out in the Table to section 3(2).

        [Section 14 amended: No. 47 of 1999 s. 34; No. 65 of 2006 s. 11.]