Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00810:section:23
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00810
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23
Character Range: 68593–70314

23  Federal sentences—reductions and remissions
  Where a Commonwealth prisoner is transferred, in pursuance of a transfer order, from a State or Territory to another State or Territory, then, in the application of the provisions of the law of that last‑mentioned State or Territory by virtue of section 19AA of the Crimes Act 1914, those provisions have effect upon his or her being so transferred as if he or she were entitled, upon his or her so being transferred:
 (a) in lieu of any period or periods of reduction or remission of his or her federal sentence to which he or she would otherwise be entitled under that law in that application upon being so transferred—to a period or periods of reduction or remission of his or her federal sentence equivalent to the period or periods of reduction or remission of his or her sentence to which he or she was entitled under the law of the first‑mentioned State or Territory in its application, by virtue of that section of that Act, immediately before being so transferred; and
 (b) in lieu of any period or periods of reduction or remission of a minimum term of imprisonment fixed under section 19AB, 19AC or 19AR, as the case may be, of that Act in relation to his or her federal sentence to which he or she would otherwise be entitled under that law in that application upon being so transferred—to a period or periods of reduction or remission of that minimum term of imprisonment equivalent to the period or periods of reduction or remission of that minimum term of imprisonment to which he or she was entitled under the law of the first‑mentioned State or Territory in its application, by virtue of section 19 of that Act, immediately before being so transferred.