Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00085:section:15ac:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00085
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 15AC (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 44722–46440

sitting in a State for the purpose of a trial in that State, the court may, if it is satisfied that the interests of justice require it, order that, for the purpose of viewing a place, or taking evidence from a person, in the Territory, or for a prescribed purpose:
 (a) the trial be adjourned for such time as the court considers reasonable and necessary, and be continued in the Territory for so long as is necessary for that purpose;
 (b) on the warrant of the Registrar, a magistrate of the Territory or such other person as the court directs (being a person who holds an office in relation to the court), the accused be returned to the Territory for the purposes of the continuation of the trial and any related proceedings; and
 (c) the jurors empanelled for the trial go to the Territory and remain there for such time as the court directs for the purpose of continuing to attend as jurors in the trial.
 (9) A person who appears as a witness in an indictment court in a trial, or in related proceedings, held wholly or partly in a State, shall be paid by the Commonwealth such fees and allowances as would be payable to the person if the person had appeared as a witness in a trial held in the Territory.
 (10) Where:
 (a) an indictment court, when exercising its criminal jurisdiction in a State, makes an order, issues a warrant or summons or gives a judgment;
 (b) a person fails to comply with that order, warrant, summons or judgment; and
 (c) that failure would have constituted an offence against a law in force in the Territory if it had occurred there;
the person commits an offence against this Act punishable by a penalty that is the same as the penalty for the offence referred to in paragraph (c).