Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 No 93
Current version for 19 March 2013 to date (accessed 21 May 2013 at 19:46)
Part 7Division 6Section 181

181   Warrants committing offenders to correctional centres

(1)  If the Parole Authority:
(a)  revokes an intensive correction order, home detention order or parole order, or
(b)  decides not to make a home detention order under section 165A with respect to an offender the subject of a temporary release order under section 165B,
      it may issue a warrant committing the offender to a correctional centre to serve the remainder of the sentence to which the order relates by way of full-time detention.
(1A)  If the Parole Authority revokes a temporary release order under section 165B, it may issue a warrant committing the offender to a correctional centre pending the Parole Authority’s decision as to whether or not to make a home detention order under section 165A.
(1B)  The Parole Authority may, by order, recall or suspend any warrant that it has issued under this section.
(2)  A warrant or order under this section is to be signed by a judicial member of the Parole Authority as referred to in section 183 (2) (a).
(3)  Subject to any order under subsection (1B), a warrant under this section is sufficient authority:
(a)  for any police officer to arrest, or to have custody of, the offender named in the warrant, to convey the offender to the correctional centre specified in the warrant and to deliver the offender into the custody of the general manager of that correctional centre, and
(b)  for the general manager of the correctional centre specified in the warrant to have custody of the offender named in the warrant for the remainder of the sentence to which the warrant relates, or pending the Parole Authority’s decision as to whether or not to make a home detention order under section 165A, as the case requires.
(4)  The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the form of any warrants or orders issued for the purposes of this section.
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