Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00237:section:46:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00237
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 46 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 72799–74370

place and another;
 (f) treatment of mentally impaired prisoners;
 (g) eligibility for participation in prison programs, including release under a pre‑release permit scheme (however called);
Note: See, for example, subsection 19AZD (3) of the Crimes Act 1914.
 (h) temporary absence from prison (for example, to work or seek work, to attend a funeral or visit a relative suffering a serious illness or to attend a place of education or training);
 (i) transfer of prisoners between States and Territories.
 (6) The prisoner or Tribunal prisoner is entitled to any remission or reduction of the sentence of imprisonment imposed by the transfer country or Tribunal that is to be enforced under this Act for which the prisoner would be eligible in accordance with any applicable Australian law if the sentence were a sentence of imprisonment for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth.
 (7) Nothing in this section prevents the transfer country or Tribunal from pardoning or granting amnesty to or quashing or otherwise nullifying the conviction of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment imposed by the transfer country or Tribunal in Australia in accordance with this Act, or from commuting the sentence.
 (8) Nothing in this Act imposes any financial responsibility on the Commonwealth to maintain a prisoner transferred under Part 4 of this Act in a prison, or hospital or other place, in a State or Territory unless the prisoner has community ties with the Jervis Bay Territory, the Territory of Christmas Island or the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.