Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI) Amendment Ordinance 2000 (No. 1) (Cth)

TERRITORY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND

^{Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI) Amendment Ordinance 2000 (No. 1)}

No. 1 of 2000

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance under the Christmas Island Act 1958.

Dated 12 April 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

IAN MACDONALD

Minister for Regional Services, Territories and

Local Government

TERRITORY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND

Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI) Amendment Ordinance 2000 (No. 1)

No. 1 of 2000¹

made under the

Christmas Island Act 1958

An Ordinance to amend the Prisons Act 1981 of Western Australia in its application to the Territory in relation to the return to the Territory of persons released from prison in Western Australia

Contents

Page

1  Name of Ordinance   3

2  Commencement   3

3  Amendment of Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI) 3

Schedule 1           Amendment  4

1. Name of Ordinance

This Ordinance is the Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI) Amendment Ordinance 2000 (No. 1).

1. Commencement

This Ordinance commences on gazettal.

1. Amendment of Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI)

Schedule 1 amends the Prisons Act 1981 (WA) (CI).

Schedule 1        Amendment

(section 3)

[1]         Section 33

substitute

33            Return of persons to the Territory

(1)   Subsection (2) applies to a person who:

(a)    was a prisoner in Western Australia; and

(b)    before being imprisoned, was ordinarily resident in the Territory; and

(c)    within a period of 21 days after being released from prison, asks the chief executive officer to return him or her to the Territory.

(2)   The chief executive officer must either pay the person’s fare to the Territory, or make arrangements to return the person to the Territory.

(3)   However, subsection (1) does not entitle a person who was a prisoner outside the Territory to be returned to the Territory if, after release, he or she became ordinarily resident outside the Territory.

Note

1.       Made by the Governor-General on 12 April 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 April 2000.

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