Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive may grant an access approval if satisfied the visitor seeking the approval does not pose a risk to the security or good order of the corrective services facility.
Note—
See section 334 for provisions about obtaining a relevant person's criminal history.
(2) In deciding whether a visitor poses a risk to the security or good order of a corrective services facility, the chief executive must consider each of the following—
(a) whether the visitor has, as an adult, been convicted of escaping, or attempting to escape, from lawful custody in Queensland or elsewhere;
(b) whether the visitor has been convicted of helping, or attempting to help, a prisoner to escape from lawful custody in Queensland or elsewhere;
(c) whether the visitor has been convicted of committing, or attempting to commit, an offence while visiting a prisoner in lawful custody in Queensland or elsewhere;
(d) whether the visitor has been refused access to, or been suspended from entering, a corrective services facility.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to an Australian legal practitioner as defined under the Legal Profession Act 2007, section 6.
(4) Subsection (2) does not limit the matters the chief executive may consider in deciding whether a visitor poses a risk to the security or good order of a corrective services facility.
(5) The chief executive may—
(a) impose conditions on an access approval; and
(b) for a legal visitor or religious visitor—grant the visitor an access approval for all corrective services facilities.
(6) If the chief executive refuses to grant an access approval for a visitor, the chief executive may order that the visitor is also refused access to—
(a) another corrective services facility in stated circumstances; or
Example—
A person may be refused access to any corrective services facility in which a former accomplice of the person is being detained.
(b) all corrective services facilities.
(7) Also, if the chief executive refuses to grant an access approval for a visitor, the chief executive may order that the visitor can not make a further application for an access approval until the end of a stated period, of not more than 1 year, after the refusal.
(8) In deciding whether to make an order under subsection (7), the chief executive must consider—
(a) the effect of the proposed order on a child for whom approval has been given to accompany the visitor to visit the prisoner; and
(b) whether the child may, unaccompanied by an adult, visit the prisoner.
(9) A visitor who is refused an access approval may, in writing, ask the chief executive to reconsider the decision.
(10) The chief executive must reconsider the decision and may confirm, amend or cancel the decision.
(11) The chief executive must advise the visitor of the reconsidered decision.