New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) REGULATION 2014 - REG 294

294 Issue of firearms to correctional officers not at armed posts

(1) The governor of a correctional centre or the principal security officer may (by a direction given generally or in any particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers who are not stationed at armed posts for use in connection with--

(a) the escorting of inmates, or

(b) the maintenance of a guard outside a correctional centre.

(2) The Commissioner may (by a direction given in a particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers for use in connection with patrols of the perimeter of a correctional centre.

(3) The governor of a correctional centre may (by a direction given in a particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers who are not stationed at armed posts--

(a) for use in connection with the quelling or control of a correctional centre disturbance or riot, or

(b) for any other purpose for which the governor considers it necessary that firearms be issued.

(4) The following persons may (by a direction given in a particular case) authorise the issue of firearms to correctional officers who are not stationed at armed posts for use in connection with the conveyance of money or other property within a correctional centre or between a correctional centre and other places--

(a) the Commissioner,

(b) the principal security officer,

(c) the governor of a correctional centre.