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PAROLE ORDERS (TRANSFER) ACT - SECT 9

Effect of registration

    (1)     Subject to this section, while a parole order (including a parole order that was, at any time, in force in the Territory) is registered under this Act, the laws of the Territory apply to and in relation to the parole order and the person to whom the parole order relates.

    (2)     If the parole order registered under this Act was made under a law of a State or another Territory, the laws of the Territory apply under subsection (1) as if:

        (a)     each sentence of imprisonment to which the person to whom the parole order relates was subject immediately before the making of the parole order had been imposed by the appropriate court of the Territory;

        (b)     each period of imprisonment served by that person for the purpose of each such sentence had been served for the purpose of the sentence imposed by the appropriate court of the Territory; and

        (c)     the parole order had been made and was in force under a law of the Territory.

    (3)     For the purpose of subsection (2), the appropriate court of the Territory in relation to a sentence of imprisonment is:

        (a)     where the sentence was imposed by a court of summary jurisdiction or by a court on appeal from such a court – the Court of Summary Jurisdiction; and

        (b)     in any other case – the Supreme Court.

    (4)     Where a parole order registered under this Act is revoked, cancelled or is to be deemed to have been revoked under a law of the Territory, the person to whom the parole order related shall be liable to serve a period of imprisonment equal to the period for which he was liable, on the date on which he was released on parole under the order, to be imprisoned.



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