CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 72
Custody of inmates
CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 72
Custody of inmates
72 Custody of inmates
(1) While held in custody in a correctional centre, an
inmate is taken to be in the custody of the governor of the correctional
centre to which the inmate has been committed or (if the inmate has been
transferred to another correctional centre in accordance with section 23 or
41C) the correctional centre to which the inmate has been transferred.
(2) An
inmate does not cease to be in the custody of the governor of a correctional
centre merely because the inmate is for the time being held in custody in some
other part of a correctional complex (other than another correctional centre)
of which the correctional centre forms part.
(3) Despite any other provision
of this Act, an inmate is not to be held in a police station or court cell
complex for more than 7 days at a time.
