Warrant of commitmentWarrant of commitment

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