BACK PREVIOUS SECTION NEXT SECTION BACK PREVIOUS SECTION NEXT SECTION | 10. (1) The minister may at any time enter a correctional centre for the purpose of inspection, and is entitled to access to every part of the centre. | ||
| (2) The minister may do one or more of the following: | ||
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examine papers, documents, vouchers, records, books and other things in the correctional centre; | |
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investigate the conduct of any person employed in or about the correctional centre, or of any person found within its precincts; | |
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by order signed by the minister, summon a person before the minister; | |
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examine that person under oath about any matter relating to any breach of the rules of the correctional centre, or any matter affecting its interests; | |
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by order, compel the production of books, papers, writings or other things before the minister. | |
| (3) A person may be taken into custody under a warrant signed by the minister if the person, after being served with a copy of an order of the minister under subsection (2), | ||
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neglects or refuses to appear at the time and place specified in the order, or | |
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refuses to give evidence or produce the books, papers, writings or other things demanded of the person in the order. | |
| (4) On the order of a judge of the Supreme Court summarily made, on complaint of the Attorney General, a person taken into custody under subsection (3) may be imprisoned as for contempt, for a period of not longer than 14 days. | ||
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