Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Discipline and Prison Offences
73. Aggravated prison offences
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The following are aggravated prison offences:ItemAggravated prison offence1.Mutiny.2.Escape or attempt to escape.3.Taking part in any assault or attack on any prison officer, official visitor or any person working, or providing rehabilitative and other related services, in the prison.4.Aggravated or repeated assault on any other prisoner.5.Wilful destruction of prison property.6.Wilfully causing to himself or herself any illness, injury or disability.7.Wilfully making a false or groundless accusation or complaint against any prisoner, prison officer, official visitor or any person working, or providing rehabilitative and other related services, in the prison.8.Any act constituting a minor prison offence under section 72, committed by one or more members or associates of a secret society in connection with the activities of the secret society, whether or not all the other members of the secret society are present.9.Repetition of any minor prison offence after having been twice punished for the same minor offence.10.Where a prisoner subject to a release order, a home detention order under section 52, an external placement order under section 59B or an employment preparation order under section 59K (called in this subsection the relevant order) is required under the conditions of the relevant order to allow the Superintendent or any person authorised by the Superintendent to enter the prisoner’s place of residence, or any other place or places designated under the relevant order, the refusal by the prisoner to allow the entry, or obstructing or hindering the entry, of such person.11.Any other act of gross misconduct or insubordination.12.Abetting the commission of any aggravated prison offence.
prison
“prison” means any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, declared to be a prison or reformative training centre under section 3, and includes the grounds and buildings within the prison enclosure and also the airing grounds or other grounds or buildings belonging or attached thereto and used by prisoners;
The aggravated prison offences mentioned in items 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the table in subsection (1) do not apply in relation to a prisoner who is serving his or her sentence in such place or places outside the limits of any 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;