Transfers to be effected in custody of escort
24 Transfers to be effected in custody of escort
An order of transfer—
shall direct the manager of the prison where the prisoner who is the subject of the order is then imprisoned to deliver the prisoner into the custody of an escort and shall be sufficient authority to the manager so to deliver the prisoner; and
authorises the escort to take and keep custody of the prisoner for the purpose of conveying him from South Australia to such prison in a participating State or a Territory as is specified in the order and there delivering him into the custody of the person for the time being in charge of that prison.
A reference in subsection (1) to an escort is a reference to a prison officer, a member of the police force or a person appointed by the
Minister by an instrument in writing to be an escort for the purposes of this
Act, or any two or more of them.
Where—
under an interstate law or the Commonwealth Act, or both, an order is issued for the transfer to this State of a person imprisoned in a participating State or a Territory; and
pursuant to the order an escort brings the person into South
Australia, the escort, while in South Australia, is authorised to hold, take and keep custody of the person for the purpose of conveying him to such prison in South
Australia as is specified in the order and there delivering him into the custody of the manager.
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