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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
181Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres
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#### 181 Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres
181 Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres
> > (1) If the Parole Authority revokes an intensive correction order, a re-integration home detention order or parole order, it may issue a warrant committing the offender to a correctional centre to serve the remainder of the sentence to which the order relates by way of full-time detention.
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> > (1A) (Repealed)
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> > (1B) The Parole Authority may, by order, recall or suspend any warrant that it has issued under this section.
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> > (2) A warrant under this section is to be signed by the Secretary of the Parole Authority and as soon as practicable afterwards countersigned by a judicial member of the Parole Authority.
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> > (2A) An order under this section is to be signed by a judicial member of the Parole Authority.
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> > (3) Subject to any order under subsection (1B), a warrant under this section is sufficient authority—
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> > > (a) for any police officer to arrest, or to have custody of, the offender named in the warrant, to convey the offender to the correctional centre specified in the warrant and to deliver the offender into the custody of the governor of that correctional centre, and
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> > > (b) for the governor of the correctional centre specified in the warrant to have custody of the offender named in the warrant for the remainder of the sentence to which the warrant relates.
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> > (4) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the form of any warrants or orders issued for the purposes of this section.
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> > (5) A warrant under this section has effect on its signing by the Secretary of the Parole Authority and is not invalid merely because it is not countersigned by a judicial member of the Parole Authority.
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> > (6) A reference in this section to a judicial member of the Parole Authority is a reference to a judicial member referred to in section 183 (2) (a).
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> **s 181:** Am 2000 No 110, Sch 1 \[44\]; 2002 No 74, Sch 1 \[19\] \[20\]; 2003 No 25, Sch 2 \[6\]; 2004 No 94, Sch 1 \[41\]; 2006 No 81, Sch 1 \[29\]–\[32\]; 2010 No 48, Sch 2 \[33\]–\[36\]; 2014 No 6, Sch 1 \[13\] \[14\]; 2017 No 53, \[33\]–\[35\]; 2017 No 57, Sch 1 \[27\]; 2018 No 74, Sch 1 \[1\].