Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WAR CRIMES ACT 1945 - SECT 15

(1)

This section applies where:

(a)

a proceeding for an offence against this Act is being held in a State or internal Territory; and

(b)

the magistrate or judge orders under section 14 that all proceedings for the offence be held in another State or internal Territory.

(2)

The magistrate or judge may order that the defendant be taken, as soon as practicable, in the custody of a specified person, to that other State or Territory and there delivered into the custody of a person having authority to arrest him or her.

(3)

The magistrate or judge may make such further orders as he or she thinks necessary to facilitate the carrying into effect of an order made under subsection (2).

(4)

While the order under section 14 is in force:

(a)

a proceeding for the offence shall not be held except in that other State or Territory; and

(b)

the defendant is not entitled to apply to a magistrate or judge in that other State or Territory for an order under section 14 in relation to the offence.