Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies to a person (other than a sentenced offender or remandee) detained in lawful custody under a territory law or a law of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory.
Examples
1 a person held on a warrant issued under the Royal Commissions Act 1991
, s 35 (Apprehension of witnesses failing to appear)
2 an interstate prisoner on leave in the ACT held in custody overnight
(2) Functions under this Act in relation to the person must be exercised, as far as practicable, as follows:
(a) to recognise and facilitate the purpose for which the person is detained;
(b) to respect and protect the person's human rights;
(c) to ensure the person's decent, humane and just treatment;
(d) to preclude torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
(3) Also, functions under this Act in relation to the person must be exercised, as far as practicable, as follows:
(a) to ensure the person is not subject to punishment only because of the conditions of detention;
(b) to ensure the person's conditions in detention comply with the requirements under the Corrections Management Act 2007
.
(4) This
Act applies in relation to the person as a full-time detainee, with any
changes prescribed by regulation.