New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1997 - SECT 9

9 Annual report

(1) The State Minister is to prepare an annual report for presentation to each House of Parliament on each relevant decision made by the State Minister during the year and of the reasons for that decision.

(2) It is sufficient compliance with this section if the annual report is included in the annual report for any Department for which the Minister is responsible prepared in accordance with the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985 and the regulations under that Act.

(3) In this section:
"relevant decision" means:

(a) a consent, or refusal to consent, to the transfer of a prisoner from Australia on the terms proposed by a transfer country under section 20 (2) of the Commonwealth Act, or

(b) a consent, or refusal to consent, to the transfer of a prisoner to Australia under section 27 (4) of the Commonwealth Act, or

(c) a consent, or refusal to consent, to the transfer of a Tribunal prisoner to Australia under section 36 (3) of the Commonwealth Act.

Note: The State Minister is defined in the Commonwealth Act as the Minister of the State administering the law of the State relating to the transfer of prisoners.