New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRISONERS (INTERSTATE TRANSFER) ACT 1982 - SECT 25

25 Transfer of sentence with prisoner

(1) Where pursuant to an order of transfer a prisoner is conveyed to a participating State or a Territory specified in the order, then from the time the prisoner arrives in the participating State or the Territory every State sentence of imprisonment imposed upon the prisoner, including a translated sentence, ceases to have effect in New South Wales except:

(a) for the purpose of any appeal against or review of any conviction, judgment or sentence made, imposed or fixed by a court of New South Wales,

(b) in relation to any period of imprisonment served by the prisoner in New South Wales, or

(c) in relation to the remittance of money to the Minister which is paid in discharge or partial discharge of a sentence of default imprisonment originally imposed upon the prisoner by a court of New South Wales.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a sentence of imprisonment imposed upon a person where the person has completed serving that sentence.