Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1983 NO. 95 OF 1983 - SECT 25

PART VI-MISCELLANEOUS

25. Where-

   (a)  a State order of transfer of a State is made under a State transfer
        law for the transfer of a State prisoner or a joint prisoner between
        that State and another State;

   (b)  a person is authorized in accordance with a State transfer law
        (whether or not that law is a law of that State) to keep that prisoner
        in custody in a State for the purpose of so transferring the prisoner;
        and

   (c)  in the course of so transferring the prisoner, the person brings the
        prisoner into a Territory,
then-

   (d)  the person may keep the prisoner in custody in the Territory for
        purposes in connection with the transfer of the prisoner; and

   (e)  the prisoner may be detained in the Territory in a prison or in a
        police station or other premises in which persons awaiting trial may
        lawfully be detained for such time as is reasonably necessary to
        facilitate the transfer.