Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Discipline and Prison Offences
62. Payment of money forbidden
Feedback & supportAny money or other consideration must not on any pretext whatsoever be payable, paid, given or promised by or on behalf of any prisoner, either on his or her entry into, commitment to, continuance in or discharge from any prison, to any prison officer, medical officer, member or employee of the Corporation, or to any other person working in a prison.
prisoner
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;
Any such person receiving or demanding any such money or other consideration or undertaking any service in consideration of receiving or the promising of such money or other consideration shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,200 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
Any public officer convicted under this section may, unless the conviction is reversed on appeal, be dismissed from his or her office, and all arrears of pay due to him or her may be forfeited.