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COUNTER-TERRORISM AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 8

Amendment of s 71 (Reconsidering decision)

8 Amendment of s 71 (Reconsidering decision)

(1) Section 71(1)(a), from ‘other than’—
omit, insert—
other than a preliminary transfer or a transfer for the purposes of the prisoner’s initial placement; and
(2) Section 71(6)—
insert—

"initial placement" , of a prisoner who is sentenced to a period of imprisonment, means the placement of the prisoner at—
(a) if a preliminary transfer of the prisoner has been made—the corrective services facility to which the prisoner is transferred following the preliminary transfer; or
(b) otherwise—the corrective services facility to which the prisoner is transferred after first being admitted to a corrective services facility on sentencing.

"preliminary transfer" means the transfer on sentencing of a prisoner who is detained on remand for an offence, if the transfer is for the purposes of assessing and determining an appropriate corrective services facility for the prisoner’s initial placement.



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