Prisoners (Interstate Transfer) Act 1983

Where a translated sentence is a sentence by which default imprisonment was ordered and a portion of the amount in default of payment of which the default imprisonment was ordered is paid by or on behalf of the prisoner who is the subject of the sentence to the

Commissioner of Correctional Services:

the term of default imprisonment shall be reduced by a period which bears to the term of default imprisonment the same proportion as the portion paid bears to the total amount that was payable and, subject to any other sentence of imprisonment, the prisoner shall be entitled to be released on the expiry of the reduced period; and

the portion so paid shall be remitted by the Commissioner to the corresponding Minister of the participating State where the sentence, by which default imprisonment was ordered, was originally imposed.

Where a translated sentence is a sentence by which default imprisonment was ordered and, on a review by or an appeal to a court of the participating State where the sentence was imposed or as a result of any other action taken by a person or authority in that participating State, the amount in default of payment of which the default imprisonment was ordered is reduced or the obligation to pay that amount is quashed:

the term of default imprisonment shall, where the amount is reduced, be reduced by a period which bears to the term of default imprisonment the same proportion as the amount of the reduction bears to the total amount that was payable and, subject to any other sentence of imprisonment that may be imposed on him or her, the prisoner shall be entitled to be released on the expiry of that reduced period; or

the prisoner shall, where the obligation to pay the amount is quashed, thereupon, subject to any other sentence of imprisonment that may be imposed on him or her, be entitled to be released.

Part VI Miscellaneous