Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1994 No. 182 of 1994 - SECT 20

20. Section 48A of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting "or 47B" after "47";

   (b)  by adding the following subsection:

"(2) If a person who is undergoing punishment for an offence against a law of
the Commonwealth or of a Territory commits an offence against a law of a State
or Territory that corresponds to section 47 or 47B, the person is, upon being
returned to lawful custody, to undergo (in addition to any punishment imposed
for the corresponding offence and any other punishment that the person is
required to undergo under the law of the State or Territory) the punishment
that the person would have undergone for the first-mentioned offence if the
person had not escaped.".