Community Based Sentences (Interstate Transfer) Act 2020

If the local sentence is registered in the interstate jurisdiction, the following provisions have effect—

the sentence becomes an interstate sentence for the interstate jurisdiction and ceases to be a local sentence;

the offender may be dealt with in the interstate jurisdiction for a breach of the sentence, whether the breach happened before, or happens after, the registration of the sentence;

if the sentence is registered in the local register—the local authority must remove the sentence from the register;

proceedings against the offender may not be commenced or continued under the law of Queensland for any breach of the conditions attached to the sentence that occurred before it was registered in the interstate jurisdiction.

If Queensland is the originating jurisdiction for the local sentence, this section does not affect—

any right of appeal or review, however described, in relation to—

the conviction or finding of guilt on which the sentence was based; or

the imposition of the sentence; and

the sentence to the extent it—

imposes a fine or other financial penalty, however described; or

requires the making of reparation, however described; or

imposes a period of detention or imprisonment.

For the purpose of subsection (2)(b), the local sentence remains a community based sentence in force in Queensland and may be enforced accordingly.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that this section does not prevent the local sentence from again being registered in Queensland after being registered in the interstate jurisdiction.