New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 235

235 Functions of correctional officers

(1) The functions of the various ranks and classes of correctional officers are to be as determined from time to time by the Commissioner.

(2) Commissioned correctional officers must at all times exercise their functions in connection with the administration and management of correctional complexes and correctional centres in such manner as the Commissioner, having regard to current circumstances, may from time to time direct.

(3) The Commissioner may, by order in writing, authorise any person to exercise such functions of a correctional officer as are specified in the order, subject to such conditions as are so specified.

(4) The functions so specified may include not only functions under this Act but also functions under any other Act or law.

(5) In the exercise of any such function, a person so authorised is taken to be, for all purposes, a correctional officer.