Cross-border Justice Act 2009
102Bringing up prisoner or detainee in another participating
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102 Bringing up prisoner or detainee in another participating jurisdiction before judicial body of Territory (1) This section applies in relation to a person in custody in a prison or detention centre in another participating jurisdiction under the law of a participating jurisdiction. (2) If the person is required or entitled to be present at proceedings of a judicial body of the Territory: (a) the judicial body or person constituting it for the proceedings; or (b) an officer of the judicial body authorised in accordance with its procedures; or (c) the person in charge of the prison or detention centre; may, by written order, direct the person be brought up to the place named in the order.
Cross-border Justice Act 2009 51 (3) The order can only be made if the person has a connection with a cross-border region that is partly in the participating jurisdiction in which the person is in custody. (4) If 2 or more people constitute the judicial body for the proceedings, subsection (2)(a) applies to each of them. (5) In this section: judicial body, of the Territory, means a court, tribunal or other body or person that under the law of the Territory has judicial or quasi judicial functions or otherwise acts judicially, and includes a Board of Inquiry under the Inquiries Act 1945. proceedings, of a judicial body of the Territory, includes anything done in the performance of the functions of the judicial body.