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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
261Address of warrant
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#### 261 Address of warrant
261 Address of warrant
> > (1) Any warrant, order or other instrument addressed to the governor of a correctional centre describing the correctional centre by its situation or other definite description is valid whatever the formal description of the correctional centre.
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> > (2) (Repealed)
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> > (3) A warrant addressed to the governor of a correctional centre may be received by the governor of any other correctional centre or by the person in charge of any police station or court cell complex.
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> > (4) A warrant addressed to the person in charge of a police station may be received by the person in charge of any other police station or by the governor of a correctional centre.
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> > (5) Nothing in this section authorises the detention of a person for the whole or part of a sentence in one or more police stations for more than one month at a time.
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> > (6) This section applies in respect of a residential facility and a manager of a residential facility in the same way as it applies to a correctional centre and a governor of a correctional centre.
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> **s 261:** Am 2008 No 108, Sch 1 \[35\]; 2010 No 48, Sch 2 \[65\].