INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 56A Aiding persons to escape etc.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 56A

    Division   5 of Part   III of the Crimes Act 1914 has effect as if:

  (a)   custody or detention in Australia under this Act were custody in respect of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth; and

  (b)   arrest under section   56 of this Act were arrest in respect of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth.