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Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005
286Community-based sentence transfer—dispute about
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286 Community-based sentence transfer—dispute about
accuracy of information in interstate register
(a) a community-based sentence that was a local sentence is
registered in an interstate jurisdiction; and
Transfer of community-based sentences—other provisions Part 12.6
(b) the offender claims, in writing, to the interstate authority for the
interstate jurisdiction that the information recorded about the
sentence or the offender in the register kept under the
corresponding community-based sentence law of the interstate
jurisdiction (the interstate register) is not, or is no longer,
accurate, and states in the claim how the information is
inaccurate.
(2) The interstate authority may send the local authority—
(a) a copy of the claim; and
(b) an extract from the interstate register containing the information
that the offender claims is inaccurate.
(3) The local authority must check whether the information in the extract
is accurate, having regard to the offender’s claims.
(4) If the local authority is satisfied that the information is accurate, the
local authority must tell the interstate authority.
(5) If the local authority is satisfied that the information is inaccurate, the
local authority must give the interstate authority the correct
information.