Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 No. 75 of 1997 - SECT 42

The Attorney-General may direct that a sentence of imprisonment imposed on a
prisoner by a court or tribunal of a transfer country, or on a Tribunal
prisoner by a Tribunal, be enforced on transfer of the prisoner to Australia
under this Act:

   (a)  without any adaptation of the duration of the sentence of imprisonment
        or its legal nature, or with only such adaptations to the duration of
        the sentence or its legal nature as the Attorney-General considers are
        necessary to ensure that enforcement of the sentence is consistent
        with Australian law (in this Act called the continued enforcement
        method); or

   (b)  by substituting a different sentence of imprisonment for that imposed
        by the transfer country or Tribunal (in this Act called the converted
        enforcement method).