Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00810:section:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00810
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 1/8)
Character Range: 4297–6980

3  Interpretation
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
appropriate Minister, in relation to a State, means:
 (a) in the case of a State other than the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory—the Minister of the State who is responsible for the administration of the State transfer law of that State; and
 (aa) in respect of the Australian Capital Territory—the Minister for that Territory who is responsible for the administration of the law of that Territory relating to the interstate transfer of prisoners; and
 (b) in the case of the Northern Territory—the person holding Ministerial office under section 36 of the Northern Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1978 who is responsible for the administration of the State transfer law of the Northern Territory.
Commonwealth prisoner means a person who is either a federal prisoner or a Territory prisoner and includes a prisoner upon whom a sentence of imprisonment was imposed for an offence against a law of the Northern Territory and who was, before 12 June 1985, removed to the State of South Australia under section 3 of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923.
complementary State order of transfer means a State order of transfer other than an order for the transfer of a State prisoner from a State to another State or to a Territory.
default imprisonment means imprisonment in default of payment of a fine ordered to be paid on the conviction of a person for an offence.
federal prisoner means a person upon whom a federal sentence of imprisonment has been imposed.
federal sentence of imprisonment means a sentence of imprisonment for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth.
fine means a pecuniary penalty imposed by a court for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory, together with any amount (including an amount of costs, compensation or revenue charges) the payment of which by the person on whom the fine was imposed was ordered by the court in the proceedings in which the fine was imposed.
imprisonment includes penal servitude.
joint prisoner means a Commonwealth prisoner who, if he or she were not a federal prisoner or a Territory prisoner, would be a State prisoner.
legal practitioner means a person who is enrolled as a barrister, a solicitor, or a barrister and solicitor of a federal court or of a court of a State or Territory.
local prisons authority:
 (a) in relation to a State—has the meaning given by the State transfer law of that State; or
 (b) in relation to a Territory—has the meaning prescribed by the regulations.
minimum term of imprisonment means that part of a sentence of imprisonment that is fixed by a court