Community Based Sentences (Interstate Transfer) Act 2020

This section applies to an interstate offender who—

holds an interstate travel permit that authorises the offender to travel to Queensland; and

is present in Queensland.

The local authority may issue a warrant for the interstate offender’s arrest if the local authority is—

advised by the relevant interstate authority that the interstate travel permit is no longer in force in Queensland; or

satisfied the offender has failed to comply with the conditions of the interstate travel permit.

A warrant under subsection (2) is sufficient authority for a local law enforcement officer to—

arrest the interstate offender; and

convey the interstate offender to a place stated in the warrant, whether in Queensland or an interstate jurisdiction; and

deliver the interstate offender into the custody of an interstate law enforcement officer of the jurisdiction in which the interstate travel permit was issued.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that the warrant authorises a local law enforcement officer to convey the interstate offender within or across any interstate jurisdiction for the purpose of taking the offender to a place stated in the warrant.