Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHRISTMAS ISLAND ACT 1958 - SECT 18D

    Where:

  (a)   a person has been tried in relation to an indictable offence against a law in force in the Territory by the Supreme Court sitting in a State; and

  (b)   the person is convicted of that offence and sentenced to imprisonment;

the person shall be deemed:

  (c)   to be a prisoner within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 ; and

  (d)   to have been removed to that State under that Act;

and the provisions of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.