Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 10

10 .         Failure to supply information to inquiry

        (1)         Where under section 9 an officer is required by a reporting officer to give any information or answer any question, an officer who without reasonable excuse — 

            (a)         fails to give that information or answer that question; or

            (b)         gives any information or answer that is false in any particular,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $300.

        (2)         Where under section 9 a prisoner is required by a reporting officer to give any information or answer any question, a prisoner who without reasonable excuse — 

            (a)         fails to give that information or answer that question; or

            (b)         gives any information or answer that is false in any particular,

                commits an aggravated prison offence.

        (3)         It is a defence in any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) or (2) to show that the reporting officer did not comply with section 9(5).

        [Section 10 amended by No. 47 of 1991 s. 7; No. 74 of 2003 s. 94(4).]