Corrective Services Amendment Regulation 2024

1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Corrective Services Amendment Regulation 2024.

2Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Corrective Services Regulation 2017.

3Amendment of s 17 (Privileged mail)

Section 17(1)—
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(z)an officer of the Commonwealth department in which the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018 (Cwlth) is administered.

4Insertion of new pt 3, divs 3 and 4

Part 3—
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Division 3 Apparatus for scanning searches and imaging searches

26AApparatus for scanning search and imaging search—Act, s 175A

(1)For section 175A(3) of the Act, an ion scanning device is prescribed.

(2)For section 175A(4) of the Act, an x-ray body scanner is prescribed.

(3)In this section—

x-ray body scanner means an apparatus that uses ionising radiation to produce an x-ray image of a person.

Division 4 Requirements and procedures for imaging searches

26BPurpose of division

For section 175A(5)(b) of the Act, this division prescribes other requirements and procedures relating to imaging searches.

26CConduct of imaging search

An imaging search of a person must be carried out by at least 1 corrective services officer, but by no more officers than are reasonably necessary to carry out the search.

26DStorage of images

The chief executive must ensure that images produced by an imaging search of a person are kept securely.

26EUse of images

(1)A person must not show an image produced by an imaging search of a person (a relevant person) to another person other than—

(a)the relevant person; or

(b)a health practitioner treating the relevant person; or

(c)a person responsible for deciding if a proceeding is to be started for a search offence in relation to the imaging search; or

(d)an officer of a law enforcement agency investigating a search offence in relation to the imaging search; or

(e)an officer of a law enforcement agency, a lawyer, a prosecutor or a witness involved in a proceeding for a search offence in relation to the imaging search; or

(f)a court; or

(g)the chief executive, or a corrective services officer directed by the chief executive to view the image, for the purpose of performing a function or exercising a power under the Act; or

(h)the chief inspector; or

(i)an official visitor; or

(j)a commissioner of the Crime and Corruption Commission; or

(k)the ombudsman; or

(l)the inspector of detention services; or

(m)a person to whom the relevant person has consented to the image being shown.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2)In this section—

search offence, in relation to an imaging search of a person, means—

(a)an offence involving a prohibited thing found during the imaging search; or

(b)an offence committed during the imaging search.

5Omission of s 48 (Apparatus for scanning search—Act, s 175A)

Section 48—
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6Amendment of sch 1 (Prisons)

Schedule 1, ‘Southern Queensland Correctional Centre’—
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Southern Queensland Correctional Complex