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PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 69

69 .         Minor prison offences

                A prisoner who — 

            (a)         disobeys a rule or standing order of the prison or a lawful order of a prison officer or officer having control or authority over him or a person referred to in section 14(2); or

            (b)         is idle, negligent or careless in his work; or

            (c)         behaves in a disorderly manner; or

            (d)         swears or uses indecent language; or

            (e)         uses insulting or threatening language or behaves in an insulting or threatening manner; or

            (f)         pretends illness or injury; or

            (g)         wilfully or maliciously breaks, damages or destroys any property; or

            (h)         prefers a false or frivolous complaint against an officer; or

                  (i)         does any act or omission of insubordination or misconduct subversive of the order and good government of the prison; or

            (j)         fails to return to prison on or before the expiry of a period of absence authorised by an absence permit or fails to comply with a condition or restriction set out in an absence permit; or

            (k)         fails to return to prison when no longer required for the purposes of the proceedings to which an order made under section 85 relates,

                is guilty of a minor prison offence.

        [Section 69 amended by No. 47 of 1999 s. 36; No. 65 of 2006 s. 23.]

        [Section 69. Modifications to be applied in order to give effect to Cross-border Justice Act 2008: section altered 1 Nov 2009. See endnote 1M.]



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