Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Corrections Act 1986 - SECT 6

PART 1A LEGAL CUSTODY

Order of imprisonment

6. Order of imprisonment

In this Part, an order of imprisonment is-

   (a)  a sentence of imprisonment imposed by a court; or

   (b)  an order or warrant issued by a court requiring or directing the
        imprisonment of a person or the detention of a person in a prison or
        in a place of detention on court premises; or

   (c)  a direction, order or warrant or other instrument made or issued under
        an Act requiring or directing or authorising the imprisonment of a
        person or the detention of a person in a prison or the transfer of a
        person to or from a prison or the return of a person to a prison; or

   (ca) a preventative detention order within the meaning of the
        Terrorism (Community Protection) Act 2003 or an order for a person's
        detention made under a corresponding preventative detention law within
        the meaning of that Act; or

   (d)  an order issued under an interstate law of a participating State
        within the meaning of the Prisoners (Interstate Transfer) Act 1983
        that corresponds with an order of transfer under that Act or a
        transfer order made under the Transfer of Prisoners Act 1983 of the
        Commonwealth or an order made under section 31 of that Act that
        provides for the transfer of a person from another State or a
        Territory to Victoria.