(1) This section applies if a warrant is issued for an offender's arrest under this chapter.
(2) This section also applies if a warrant is issued for an offender's arrest under section 206 (2), because—
(a) the offender failed to appear before the board in accordance with a notice under section 63 (Notice of inquiry—breach of intensive correction order obligations); or
(b) a judicial member of the board considers that an offender will not appear before the board in accordance with a notice under section 63.
(3) For each period during which a warrant is outstanding and the offender is not in custody (an "outstanding warrant period")—
(a) the offender is taken not to perform their sentence by intensive correction; and
(b) the term of the offender's intensive correction order, and the term of the sentence, are automatically extended by the outstanding warrant period.
(4) In this section:
"in custody" means—
(a) remanded in custody under a territory law or a law of the Commonwealth or a State; or
(b) detained at a place under the Mental Health Act 2015
.
Note State includes the Northern Territory (see Legislation Act
, dict, pt 1).