Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999

If an escort officer has a full-time detainee in custody in accordance with the terms of an Australian Capital Territory direction, it is lawful for the escort officer to hold and deal with the detainee in accordance with those terms.

The governor of a correctional centre may—

accept custody of a full-time detainee the subject of an Australian Capital Territory direction, or

refuse to accept custody of the full-time detainee.

If custody of a full-time detainee is accepted by the governor of a correctional centre, the detainee must be held in custody in the correctional centre for the period necessary for the detainee’s sentence, as referred to in the Australian Capital Territory direction, to be executed in accordance with the direction.

Nothing in this section prevents the early release of a full-time detainee by reason of the operation of any law of the Commonwealth, or of the Australian Capital Territory, relating to the release of full-time detainees.

Until released from custody or delivered into the custody of an escort officer under an Australian Capital Territory direction, a full-time detainee may be dealt with as if the detainee’s sentence were a sentence passed under a law of New South Wales.

Subsection (5) is subject to the provisions of the Australian Capital Territory Act.