New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 44

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) It is the duty of the general manager of a correctional centre or any other officer doing duty at a correctional centre to accept custody of any full-time detainee the subject of an Australian Capital Territory direction.

(3) The full-time detainee is to be held in custody in a correctional centre for so long as is necessary for the detainee’s sentence referred to in the Australian Capital Territory direction to be executed in accordance with that 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.