CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 44
Conveyance and detention of full-time detainees from ACT
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 44
Conveyance and detention of full-time detainees from ACT
44 Conveyance and detention of full-time detainees from ACT
(1) If an escort
officer has a full-time detainee in custody in accordance with the terms of an
Australian Capital Territory direction, it is lawful for the escort officer to
hold and deal with the detainee in accordance with those terms.
(2) The
governor of a correctional centre may--
(a) accept custody of a full-time
detainee the subject of an Australian Capital Territory direction, or
(b)
refuse to accept custody of the full-time detainee.
(3) If custody of a
full-time detainee is accepted by the governor of a correctional centre, the
detainee must be held in custody in the correctional centre for the period
necessary for the detainee's sentence, as referred to in the Australian
Capital Territory direction, to be executed in accordance with the direction.
(4) Nothing in this section prevents the early release of a full-time detainee
by reason of the operation of any law of the Commonwealth, or of the
Australian Capital Territory, relating to the release of full-time detainees.
(5) Until released from custody or delivered into the custody of an escort
officer under an Australian Capital Territory direction, a full-time detainee
may be dealt with as if the detainee's sentence were a sentence passed under a
law of New South Wales.
(6) Subsection (5) is subject to the provisions of
the Australian Capital Territory Act.
