CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 6 Application of Act—detainees
CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 6
Application of Act—detainees(1) This Act applies to each of the following (each of whom is a detainee ):
(a) an offender while the offender is required to be imprisoned under full-time detention because of a committal order for the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
, part 3.1;
(b) a person while the person is remanded in custody because of an order for remand for the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
, part 3.2;
(c) anyone else while the person is required to be held in custody or detention under a territory law or a law of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory.
Examples—par (c)
1 a person held on a warrant issued under the Royal Commissions Act 1991
, section 35 (Apprehension of witnesses failing to appear)
2 a person in immigration detention under the Migration Act 1958
(Cwlth)
3 an interstate detainee on leave in the ACT held in custody overnight
(2) However, the application of this Act is subject to the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
, part 4.3 (Full-time detention in NSW).
(3) Also, this Act (other than chapter 4 (Detention in police and court cells)) does not apply to a person detained under the Children and Young People Act 2008
.