Prisons Amendment Regulations 1996 (WA)

1240   GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [19 March 1996

For amendments to 28 December 1995 see 1994 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 223-4.]

JUSTICE

JM301 PRISONS ACT 1981

PRISONS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1996

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in Executive

Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Prisons Amendment

Regulations 1996.

Principal regulations

2.     In these regulations the Prisons Regulations 1982* are referred to as the

principal regulations.

[* Reprinted as at 20 May 1986.

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Regulation 53A inserted

3.     After regulation 53 of the principal regulations the following regulation

is inserted -

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Visitors may be required to produce evidence of identity

53A. (1) A visitor to a prisoner who makes and signs a declaration under section 60 of the Act may be required by the superintendent or an officer appointed by the superintendent for the purposes of that section of the Act, to produce evidence of his or her identity at the time of making and signing the declaration.

(2) In subregulation (1) -

"evidence of his or her identity" includes a passport, an Australian citizenship certificate, a driver's licence, a Medicare card or any other form of identification that the superintendent or officer considers satisfactory.

Regulation MA amended

4.     Regulation 54A of the principal regulations is amended by deleting the

portion of the regulation following "are prescribed -" and substituting the

following -

(a)	Albany Regional Prison;
(b)	Bandyup Women's Prison;
(c)	Bunbury Regional Prison;
(d)	Canning Vale Prison;
(e)	Casuarina Prison;
(0	Greenough Regional Prison; and
(g)	The C. W. Campbell Remand Centre.

Schedule amended

5.	The Schedule to the principal regulations is amended by deleting Form 2
a

and substituting the following form -

FORM 2

[Regulation 541

PRISONS ACT 1981

PRISONS REGULATIONS 1982

DECLARATION UNDER SECTION 60 OF THE PRISONS

ACT 1981

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

When you make a declaration under section 60 of the Prisons Act 1981 you may be required to produce evidence of your identity.

It is an offence to make a declaration under section 60 of the Prisons Act 1981 which is false in a material particular and the maximum penalty for doing so is a fine of $1500 or 18 months' imprisonment, or both the fine and imprisonment.

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1.    I declare that my full name and address and date of birth

are

(Print your given name(s) and family name, current address and date of birth)
2.	I wish to visit prisoner (Print the name of the prisoner you wish to visit)
3.	(Complete paragraph (a) or (b) if you are a relation or friend of the prisoner you wish to visit)
(a) I am a relation of the prisoner as I am the prisoner's

(State your relationship to the prisoner)

OR

(b) I am a friend of the prisoner and I have known the

prisoner for

(State the number of years or months that you have
known the prisoner)

4.    The purpose of my visit to the prisoner is

(State the purpose of your visit to the prisoner)

5. I have been informed that I am required to make this declaration under section 60 of the Prisons Act 1981 and I understand that a person who makes a declaration under that section which is false in a material particular commits an offence.

(Signature of person making this declaration)

Made the day of 19

In the presence of
(Print name of witness)

(Signature of witness)

VISITOR'S IDENTIFICATION: official use only

Driver's licence no:	Date of issue:	Date of expiry:
Medicare card no:	Date of issue:	Date of expiry:
Passport no:	Date of issue:	Date of expiry:

Citizenship certificate no: Date of issue:

Other identification:

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.