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Service and Execution of Process Regulations 1993
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## Warrant of commitment
To all enforcement officers of \[State or Territory in which the person is to be committed to prison\]
and to
the person in charge of the prison at \[place\] in \[State or Territory\]:
\[Note An enforcement officer includes a police officer and may also include the Sheriff, a Sheriff’s officer or a bailiff, depending on the State or Territory.\]
(1) This warrant authorises the conveying to prison, and imprisonment, of \[name\] (“the offender”).
(2) On \[date\], the offender, then of \[address of offender at time of sentencing court’s order\] was ordered by \[sentencing court\] at \[place\] in \[State or Territory\] to pay \[amount, including any costs or other amounts that the offender was ordered to pay\] for the offence of \[short description of the offence\].
(3) The offender appeared or was brought before the \[court that ordered the offender’s committal to prison\] at \[place\].
(4) It appeared to that Court that, of the amount referred to in paragraph (2), the sum of \[amount\] remained unpaid.
(5) Because that sum remained unpaid, the offender was committed to prison for \[period\] unless sooner released.
1(6) By reason of payment made, or remission granted, the amount unpaid is now \[amount\] and the period for which the offender is to be committed to prison is now \[period\].
You, the enforcement officers of \[State or Territory in which the person is to be committed to prison\], are authorised and commanded to convey the offender to the prison at \[place\] in \[State or Territory\] and deliver the offender to the person in charge of that prison.
You, the person in charge of that prison, are authorised and commanded to receive the offender into your custody in that prison and hold the offender in that prison for \[period\] unless in the meantime you are required under section 121 of the Service and Execution of Process Act 1992 to release the offender.
Issued by me at \[place\] on \[date\]
Clerk2 of the \[court ordering the offender’s committal to prison\]/Justice of the Peace
> Note: 1Omit this paragraph if it does not apply.
> Note: 2If the title of the issuing officer is not “Clerk”, substitute the correct title. Omit either “Clerk (etc)” or “Justice of the Peace” as appropriate.
Schedule 1A Issue of warrants — authorities
(regulation 4A)
Part 1 New South Wales
1.1 The Parole Board constituted under section 183 of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 (NSW)
Part 2 Victoria
2.1 The Adult Parole Board established by section 61 of the Corrections Act 1986 (Vic)
2.2 The Youth Residential Board established under section 204 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1989 (Vic)
2.3 The Youth Parole Board established under section 215 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1989 (Vic)
Part 3 Queensland
3.1 The Director-General of the Queensland Department of Corrective Services
3.2 The Queensland Community Corrections Board established under section 156 of the Corrective Services Act 2000 (Qld)
3.3 A regional community corrections board established under section 170 of the Corrective Services Act 2000 (Qld)
Part 4 Western Australia
4.1 The Parole Board established under section 102 of the Sentence Administration Act 2003 (WA)
4.2 The Mentally Impaired Defendants Review Board established under section 41 of the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996 (WA)
4.3 The Supervised Release Review Board established under section 151 of the Young Offenders Act 1994 (WA)
4.4 The Director General of the Western Australian Department of Justice
Part 5 Tasmania
5.1 The Parole Board established under section 62 of the Corrections Act 1997 (Tas)
Schedule 2 Persons taken to be in charge of the correction service of a State or Territory
(regulation 5)
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| -------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Item | State or Territory | Office |
| 1 | Australian Capital Territory | Director Corrective Services |
| 2 | New South Wales | Director Community Corrections |
| 3 | Norfolk Island | Gaoler |
| 4 | Northern Territory | Director Correctional Services |
| 5 | Queensland | Director-General Corrective Services |
| 6 | South Australia | Executive Director Department of Correctional Services |
| 7 | Tasmania | Director Corrective Services |
| 8 | Victoria | Director Correctional Services |
| 9 | Western Australia | Executive Director Department of Corrective Services |