CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 181
Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 181
Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres
181 Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres
(1) If the Parole
Authority revokes an intensive correction order, a re-integration home
detention order or parole order, it may issue a warrant committing the
offender to a correctional centre to serve the remainder of the sentence to
which the order relates by way of full-time detention.
(1B) The Parole
Authority may, by order, recall or suspend any warrant that it has issued
under this section.
(2) A warrant under this section is to be signed by the
Secretary of the Parole Authority and as soon as practicable afterwards
countersigned by a judicial member of the Parole Authority.
(2A) An order
under this section is to be signed by a judicial member of the Parole
Authority.
(3) Subject to any order under subsection (1B), a warrant under
this section is sufficient authority--
(a) for any police officer to arrest,
or to have custody of, the offender named in the warrant, to convey the
offender to the correctional centre specified in the warrant and to deliver
the offender into the custody of the governor of that correctional centre, and
(b) for the governor of the correctional centre specified in the warrant to
have custody of the offender named in the warrant for the remainder of the
sentence to which the warrant relates.
(4) The regulations may make provision
for or with respect to the form of any warrants or orders issued for the
purposes of this section.
(5) A warrant under this section has effect on its
signing by the Secretary of the Parole Authority and is not invalid merely
because it is not countersigned by a judicial member of the Parole Authority.
(6) A reference in this section to a judicial member of the Parole Authority
is a reference to a judicial member referred to in section 183 (2) (a).
