Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCE ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2005 - SECT 10

    (1)     This part applies if—

        (a)     a court (a committing authority ) makes an order (a committal order ) sentencing an offender to imprisonment that, under a territory law, must be served by full-time detention; or

        (b)     the board (also a committing authority ) makes an order (also a committal order ) in relation to an offender under any of the following provisions:

              (i)     section 72 (Suspension or cancellation of intensive correction order—recommittal to full-time detention);

              (ii)     section 161 (Cancellation of parole—recommittal to full-time detention);

              (iii)     section 312 (Cancellation of licence—recommittal to full-time detention).

    (2)     A reference in this section to a court sentencing an offender to imprisonment includes—

        (a)     an entity prescribed by regulation sentencing an offender to imprisonment; and

        (b)     a court ordering the imprisonment of a fine defaulter under section 116ZK.

Note     ACT courts have federal jurisdiction in criminal matters (including sentencing) under the Judiciary Act 1903

(Cwlth). See particularly that Act, s 68 (Jurisdiction of State and Territory courts in criminal cases).