13AMinisterial arrangements for the administration of local and interstate sentences

13A Ministerial arrangements for the administration of local and interstate sentences

[Section 13A Inserted by No. 35 of 2013, s. 6, Applied:01 May 2015]

(1)  The Minister may enter into arrangements with the corresponding Minister of an interstate jurisdiction so as to facilitate –

(a) the administration, within this jurisdiction, of interstate sentences imposed under a law of the interstate jurisdiction; and

(b) the administration, within the interstate jurisdiction, of local sentences, either in relation to particular local offenders or interstate offenders or particular classes of local offenders or interstate offenders.

(2)  In particular, arrangements referred to in subsection (1) may be entered into so as to facilitate –

(a) travel to the interstate jurisdiction by local offenders; and

(b) travel to this jurisdiction by interstate offenders.

(3)  The local authority has, and may exercise, such powers, authorities, duties and functions as are necessary, under the relevant Ministerial arrangements, for the administration of interstate sentences in relation to interstate offenders who are present in this jurisdiction.

(4)  For the purposes of the law of this jurisdiction with respect to local sentences, anything that is done –

(a) by the appropriate interstate authority of an interstate jurisdiction; and

(b) in accordance with the relevant Ministerial arrangements; and

(c) in the administration of a local sentence in relation to a local offender who is present in the interstate jurisdiction –

is taken to have been done pursuant to the law of this jurisdiction.