NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
PAROLE ORDERS (TRANSFER) ACT 1981
As in force at 1 May 2016
Table of provisions
1 Short title ......................................................................................... 1
2 Commencement .............................................................................. 1
3 Definitions ........................................................................................ 1
4 Appointment of Registrar ................................................................. 2
5 Requests for registration of transferred parole orders ..................... 2
6 Documents to accompany requests ................................................ 2
7 Registration of parole orders in a State or Territory to be in
interest of parolee, &c. ..................................................................... 3
8 Registration ..................................................................................... 4
9 Effect of registration ......................................................................... 4
10 Effect of transfer of parole order to a State or another Territory ...... 5
10A Exclusion of rules of natural justice ................................................. 6
11 Evidence .......................................................................................... 6
12 Delegation ....................................................................................... 6
ENDNOTES
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
As in force at 1 May 2016
PAROLE ORDERS (TRANSFER) ACT 1981
An Act relating to reciprocal enforcement of parole orders
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Parole Orders (Transfer) Act 1981.
2 Commencement
This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the
Administrator by notice in the Gazette.
3 Definitions
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
corresponding law means a law of a State or another Territory
relating to the transfer of parole orders declared by the Minister, by
notice published in the Gazette, to be a corresponding law for the
purposes of this Act.
designated authority means, in relation to a State or another
Territory, the person or body with powers under the corresponding
law of that State or other Territory that correspond to those of the
Minister under section 5.
Parole Board means the Parole Board of the Northern Territory
established by the Parole Act 1971.
parole order means a parole order in force under the Parole
Act 1971 or under a law of a State or another Territory relating to
parole, and includes:
(a) an authority given under a law of the Territory or a law of a
State or another Territory for the release of a person from
imprisonment or lawful detention, being an authority that is to
be deemed to be such a parole order under such a law; and
(b) such a parole order or authority as varied from time to time.
Registrar means the Registrar of Transferred Parole Orders.
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sentence of imprisonment includes an order, direction,
declaration or other authority under which a person may be lawfully
detained in a custodial correctional facility under the Correctional
Services Act 2014, a detention centre under the Youth Justice
Act 2005 or any other detention facility however described.
4 Appointment of Registrar
There shall be a Registrar of Transferred Parole Orders who shall
be appointed by the Minister.
5 Requests for registration of transferred parole orders
(1) The Minister may, at the request in writing of the designated
authority for a State or another Territory, by instrument in writing,
direct the Registrar to register under this Act a parole order that
was in force at the time of the request under a law of that State or
other Territory.
(2) The Minister may, by instrument in writing addressed to the
designated authority for a State or another Territory, request that a
parole order that is in force under a law of the Territory be
registered under the corresponding law of that State or other
Territory.
6 Documents to accompany requests
(1) Where the Minister requests the designated authority for a State or
another Territory under section 5(2) to register a parole order under
the corresponding law of that State or other Territory, the Minister
shall cause to be sent to the designated authority:
(a) the parole order to which the request relates together with any
variations of the order;
(b) the judgment, order, direction, declaration or other authority
which authorized the imprisonment of the person to whom the
parole order relates;
(c) particulars in writing of the address of that person last-known
to the Minister; and
(d) a report in writing relating to that person containing such
information and accompanied by such documents as appear
to be likely to be of assistance to any court, authority or officer
in that State or other Territory, including all documents that
were before the body making the parole order, details of
findings of guilt, convictions, sentences of imprisonment,
minimum terms of imprisonment, periods of imprisonment
served, class of prisoner, remissions earned and other grants
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of parole.
(2) A reference in subsection (1) (other than a reference in
subsection (1)(a)) to an order, judgment or other document is a
reference to the original or to a copy certified as a true copy by a
person purporting to be the person in whose custody the original is
entrusted.
7 Registration of parole orders in a State or Territory to be in
interest of parolee, &c.
(1) The Minister shall not direct under section 5(1) the registration
under this Act of a parole order in force under a law of a State or
another Territory unless:
(a) he is satisfied, on consideration of relevant information and
documents forwarded to him by the designated authority for
that State or other Territory that, having regard to the interests
of the person to whom the parole order relates, it is desirable
that the parole order be so registered; and
(b) either:
(i) that person has given his consent to, or has requested,
the registration of the parole order under this Act; or
(ii) that person is residing in the Territory.
(2) The Minister shall not make a request under section 5(2) for the
registration under the corresponding law of a State or another
Territory of a parole order in force under a law of the Territory
unless:
(a) he is satisfied that, having regard to the interests of the person
to whom the parole order relates, it is desirable that the parole
order be so registered; and
(b) either:
(i) that person has given his consent to, or has requested,
the registration of the parole order under the
corresponding law of that State or other Territory; or
(ii) there are reasonable grounds for believing that that
person is residing in that State or other Territory.
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8 Registration
(1) When so directed under section 5(1), the Registrar shall register a
parole order under this Act by:
(a) endorsing on the parole order a memorandum signed by him
to the effect that the parole order is, on the date of the
endorsement, registered under this Act; and
(b) keeping the endorsed parole order in a register together with
the original or copy of the judgment, order, direction,
declaration or other authority, by virtue of which the person to
whom the parole order relates became liable to undergo the
relevant imprisonment, sent by the designated authority.
(2) When the Registrar has registered a parole order, he shall:
(a) forward to the Chairman of the Parole Board one copy of the
parole order, being a copy on which is written a copy of the
memorandum endorsed on the parole order in accordance
with subsection (1), together with one copy of the judgment,
order, direction, declaration or other authority referred to in
subsection (1)(b); and
(b) cause notice in writing of the fact and date of the registration
of the parole order to be given to the designated authority who
requested the registration of the parole order, and to be
served personally on the person to whom the parole order
relates.
9 Effect of registration
(1) Subject to this section, while a parole order (including a parole
order that was, at any time, in force in the Territory) is registered
under this Act, the laws of the Territory apply to and in relation to
the parole order and the person to whom the parole order relates.
(2) If the parole order registered under this Act was made under a law
of a State or another Territory, the laws of the Territory apply under
subsection (1) as if:
(a) each sentence of imprisonment to which the person to whom
the parole order relates was subject immediately before the
making of the parole order had been imposed by the
appropriate court of the Territory;
(b) each period of imprisonment served by that person for the
purpose of each such sentence had been served for the
purpose of the sentence imposed by the appropriate court of
the Territory; and
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(c) the parole order had been made and was in force under a law
of the Territory.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), the appropriate court of the
Territory in relation to a sentence of imprisonment is:
(a) where the sentence was imposed by a court of summary
jurisdiction or by a court on appeal from such a court – the
Local Court; and
(b) in any other case – the Supreme Court.
(4) Where a parole order registered under this Act is revoked,
cancelled or is to be deemed to have been revoked under a law of
the Territory, the person to whom the parole order related shall be
liable to serve a period of imprisonment equal to the period for
which he was liable, on the date on which he was released on
parole under the order, to be imprisoned.
10 Effect of transfer of parole order to a State or another Territory
(1) Upon the registration under a corresponding law of a parole order
that, immediately before that registration, was in force under a law
of the Territory:
(a) the parole order ceases to be in force in the Territory;
(b) in the case of a parole order that was registered under this
Act, the parole order ceases to be so registered; and
(c) each sentence of imprisonment to which the person to whom
the parole order relates was subject immediately before the
registration under the corresponding law ceases to have effect
in the Territory.
(2) Upon the subsequent registration under this Act of a parole order in
relation to which subsection (1) has, at any time, applied:
(a) subsection (1)(a) and (c) ceases to apply in relation to the
parole order; and
(b) the force and effect that the parole order, and each sentence
of imprisonment to which the person to whom the parole order
relates was subject, had, under a law of the Territory
immediately before the registration under the corresponding
law, revive and continue while the parole order is registered
under this Act.
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10A Exclusion of rules of natural justice
The rules known as the rules of natural justice (including any duty
of procedural fairness) do not apply to or in relation to a direction,
request or decision given or made by the Minister under this Act.
11 Evidence
(1) An instrument in writing that purports to be a copy of a
memorandum endorsed on a parole order on a specified date under
section 8(1) and to have been signed by the Registrar is prima facie
evidence that the parole order was registered under this Act on that
date.
(2) A parole order made under a law of a State or another Territory and
registered under this Act may be received in evidence in any court
of competent jurisdiction without further proof by the production of a
copy of the parole order certified as a true copy by the Registrar,
and such a copy is prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the
parole order.
12 Delegation
(1) The Minister may, either generally or as otherwise provided by the
instrument of delegation, by writing signed by him, delegate to a
Chief Executive Officer or employee as defined in the Public Sector
Employment and Management Act 1993 any of his powers under
this Act, other than this power of delegation.
(2) A power so delegated, when exercised by the delegate shall, for the
purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been exercised by the
Minister.
(3) A delegation under this section does not prevent the exercise of a
power by the Minister.
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ENDNOTES
1 KEY
Key to abbreviations
amd = amended od = order
app = appendix om = omitted
bl = by-law pt = Part
ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule
cl = clause rem = remainder
div = Division renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired rep = repealed
f = forms s = section
Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule
hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision
ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation
lt = long title sub = substituted
nc = not commenced
2 LIST OF LEGISLATION
Parole Orders (Transfer) Act 1981 (Act No. 79, 1981)
Assent date 21 September 1989
Commenced 1 May 1984 (Gaz S22, 30 April 1984)
Parole Orders (Transfer) Amendment Act 1989 (Act No. 38, 1989)
Assent date 20 September 1989
Commenced 20 September 1989
Public Sector Employment and Management (Consequential Amendments) Act 1993
(Act No. 28, 1993)
Assent date 30 June 1993
Commenced 1 July 1993 (s 2, s 2 Public Sector Employment and
Management Act 1993 (Act No. 11, 1993) and Gaz S53,
29 June 1993)
Sentencing (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 (Act No. 17, 1996)
Assent date 19 April 1996
Commenced s 7: 19 April 1996; rem: 1 July 1996 (s 2, s 2 Sentencing
Act 1995 (Act No. 39, 1995) and Gaz S15, 13 June 1996)
Correctional Services (Related and Consequential Amendments) Act 2014 (Act No. 27,
2014)
Assent date 4 September 2014
Commenced 9 September 2014 (Gaz S80, 9 September 2014, p 2)
Local Court (Related Amendments) Act 2016 (Act No. 8, 2016)
Assent date 6 April 2016
Commenced 1 May 2016 (s 2, s 2 Local Court (Repeals and Related
Amendments) Act 2016 (Act No. 9, 2016) and Gaz S34,
29 April 2016)
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3 GENERAL AMENDMENTS
General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table
of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation
Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: ss 1, 3 and 12.
4 LIST OF AMENDMENTS
s 3 amd No. 27, 2014, s 57
s 6 amd No. 38, 1989, s 2; No. 17, 1996, s 6
s 8 amd No. 38, 1989, s 3
s 9 amd No. 8, 2016, s 45
s 10A ins No. 38, 1989, s 4
s 12 amd No. 28, 1993, s 3
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