CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 48
Conveyance and detention of prisoners from Norfolk Island
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 48
Conveyance and detention of prisoners from Norfolk Island
48 Conveyance and detention of prisoners from Norfolk Island
(1) If a
constable has a prisoner in custody in accordance with the terms of a Norfolk
Island warrant, it is lawful for the constable to hold and deal with the
prisoner in accordance with those terms.
(2) It is the duty of the governor
of a correctional centre or any other officer doing duty at a correctional
centre to accept custody of any prisoner the subject of a Norfolk Island
warrant.
(3) The prisoner is to be held in custody in a correctional centre
for so long as is necessary for the order of the court or magistrate referred
to in the Norfolk Island warrant to be executed in accordance with that
warrant.
(4) Nothing in this section prevents the early release of a prisoner
by reason of the operation of any law of the Commonwealth, or of any law in
force in Norfolk Island, relating to the release of prisoners.
(5) Until
released from custody or delivered into the custody of a constable under a
Norfolk Island warrant, a prisoner may be dealt with as if the prisoner's
sentence were a sentence passed under a law of New South Wales.
(6)
Subsection (5) is subject to the provisions of the Norfolk Island Act, the
Sentencing Act 2007 of Norfolk Island and Division 4A of Part 6 of this Act.
