INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 47 Prisoner transferred from Australia taken to be prisoner of transfer country
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 47
Prisoner transferred from Australia taken to be prisoner of transfer country On transfer of a prisoner from Australia under this Act, the
sentence of imprisonment imposed by the Australian court ceases to have effect
in Australia and, except as provided by section 48, the sentence of
imprisonment is taken for all purposes in Australia to be a sentence of
imprisonment imposed by a court or tribunal of the transfer country and the
prisoner is to be a prisoner of the transfer country.