CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 250
Transport and detention of persons in custody
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 250
Transport and detention of persons in custody
250 Transport and detention of persons in custody
(1) A person in custody
may be given into the keeping of a correctional officer.
(2) A correctional
officer into whose keeping a person in custody has been given--
(a) may convey
the person to any correctional centre, court or other place, and
(b) may
detain the person in any correctional centre or other place.
(3) A warrant of
commitment or other warrant, or an order of a court or other competent
authority, authorising the conveyance of a person in custody to, or the
detention of a person in custody in, a correctional centre authorises a
correctional officer to convey the person to the correctional centre referred
to in the warrant or order.
