Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00861:section:170
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00861
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 170
Character Range: 461073–462847

170  Warrants of commitment
 (1) Subject to this section, an authorized officer may:
 (a) issue a warrant for the commitment of a prisoner to a prison in a State or Territory; or
 (b) issue a warrant for the commitment of a detainee to a detention centre.
 (2) A warrant issued under subsection (1) shall specify:
 (a) the name of the prisoner or detainee;
 (b) the place to which the prisoner or detainee is to be committed; and
 (c) the punishment that has been imposed on the prisoner or detainee.
 (3) A warrant under subsection (1) may require all police members and members and special members of the Australian Federal Police, or a specified member of the Defence Force who is not a police member, to convey the prisoner or detainee specified in the warrant to such prison or detention centre as is specified in the warrant and there to deliver him or her into the custody of the officer in charge of the prison or detention centre or some other officer doing duty at the prison or detention centre, and the warrant may be executed by any police member or member or special member of the Australian Federal Police or the member of the Defence Force specified in the warrant, as the case requires.
 (4) Where a person is delivered into custody at a prison or detention centre in pursuance of a warrant under subsection (1), the person may, subject to this Act, be detained in that prison or any other prison in the same State or Territory as the first‑mentioned prison, or that or any other detention centre, as the case requires, for as long as his or her detention is necessary for the execution of the punishment by reason of which the warrant was issued.
 (5) In this section, detainee means a convicted person on whom a punishment of detention has been imposed.