Sentence Administration (Interstate Transfer of Community Based Sentences) Act 2009

The registration criteria for the purposes of section 20 are that —

the offender has consented to the sentence being registered in this jurisdiction and has not withdrawn the consent; and

there is a corresponding community based sentence under the law of this jurisdiction; and

the offender can comply with the sentence in this jurisdiction; and

the sentence can be safely, efficiently and effectively administered in this jurisdiction.

In this section, there is a corresponding community based sentence under the law of this jurisdiction for the interstate sentence if —

a community based sentence under the law of this jurisdiction corresponds, or substantially corresponds, to the interstate sentence; or

a community based sentence under the law of this jurisdiction is declared by the regulations to correspond to the interstate sentence, whether or not the sentence corresponds, or substantially corresponds, to the interstate sentence.