Prisons (Amendment and Validation) Act 1980 (NSW)

PRISONS (AMENDMENT AND VALIDATION) ACT,

1980, No. 88

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Act No. 88, 1980.

An Act to amend the Prisons Act, 1952, to declare certain areas to be prisons, to enable the area or name of a prison to be altered by proclamation, and to validate certain matters. [Assented to, 1st May, 1980.]

Act No. 88, 1980.

Prisons {Amendment and Validation).

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.     This Act may be cited as the “Prisons (Amendment and Short title.

Validation) Act, 1980”.

2. The Prisons Act, 1952, is amended— Amendment of Act No. 9, 1952.

(a) by inserting after section 5 (1) the following Sec. 5.

subsections	tion of
(Proclama­
prisons.)
( l a ) The Governor may by proclamation published in the Gazette alter the area of a prison and shall, in any such proclamation, declare the prison, as from a date to be specified therein, to comprise the area as so altered.
( l b ) The Governor may by proclamation published in the Gazette change the name of any prison.

(b) by inserting after section 5 the following section Sec. 5a.

5a. (1) The area (together with all buildings erected Malabar

or to be erected thereon) shown, on the map entitled “Malabar Prison Complex” signed by the Minister and dated 13th March, 1980, and deposited in the office of the Commission, as being within boundaries indicated b y -

fa) a red line is hereby declared to be a prison

known as the “Central Industrial Prison”;

(b) a green line is hereby declared to be a prison known as the “Metropolitan Reception Prison”;

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(c)	a pink line is hereby declared to be a prison known as the “Metropolitan Remand Centre”;
(d)	a blue line is hereby declared to be a prison known as the “Malabar Training Centre”; or
(e)	an orange line is hereby declared to be a prison known as the “Katingal Special Security Unit”.

(2) The areas (together with all buildings

erected or to be erected thereon) shown, on the map referred to in subsection (1), as being within boundaries indicated by a yellow line are hereby declared to be a prison known as the “Malabar Periodic Detention Centre”.

(3) An area declared to be a prison by

subsection (1) or (2) shall, for the purposes of this or any other Act or any other law, be deemed to have been that prison—

(a)	in the case of an area referred to in subsection (1) (a), (b) or (c), on and from 30th June, 1967;
(b)	in the case of the area referred to in subsection (1) (d), on and from 1st September, 1969;
(c)	in the case of the area referred to in subsection (1) (e), on and from 1st October, 1975; and
(d)	in the case of an area referred to in subsection (2 ) , on and from 1st March, 1971.

(4) A copy of or an extract from the map

referred to in subsection (1) shall be admissible in evidence if it purports to be a copy of or an extract from that map and purports to be certified under the hand of the Chairman.

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(5) For the purposes of this section, a copy of

or an extract from the map referred to in subsection (1) may be to the same scale as the original or may be an enlarged or reduced copy or extract.

(6) Nothing in this section affects the operation

of section 5.