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PRISONERS (INTERSTATE TRANSFER) ACT 1983 - SECT 25

Transfer of sentence with prisoner

    (1)     Where pursuant to an order of transfer a prisoner is conveyed to a participating State or a Territory specified in the order, then from the time the prisoner arrives in the participating State or the Territory every State sentence of imprisonment imposed upon the prisoner including a translated sentence, ceases to have effect in Victoria except—

        (a)     for the purpose of any appeal against or review of any conviction, judgment or sentence made, imposed or fixed by a court of Victoria;

        (b)     in relation to any period of imprisonment served by the prisoner in Victoria; or

        (c)     in relation to the remittance of money to the Minister which is paid in discharge or partial discharge of a sentence of default imprisonment originally imposed upon the prisoner by a court of Victoria.

S. 25(2) inserted by No. 16/1991 s. 35(f).

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a sentence of imprisonment imposed on a person if the person has completed serving that sentence.



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