Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1983 - SECT 26

             (1)  Section 47 of the Crimes Act 1914 applies to a State prisoner in lawful custody in accordance with section 25 as if a reference in that section of that Act to an offence against a law of the Commonwealth were a reference to an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State.

             (2)  Section 47 of the Crimes Act 1914 applies to a prisoner in lawful custody in pursuance of a transfer order (whether or not the person is also in lawful custody in pursuance of a State order of transfer) as if a reference in that section to an offence against a law of the Commonwealth were a reference to an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.