Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 12

    A prisoner (other than a Tribunal prisoner) is eligible for transfer from Australia to a transfer country under this Act if the prisoner:

  (a)   is a national of the transfer country; or

  (b)   has community ties with the transfer country.

Note:   Community ties with a transfer country is defined in subsection   4(4).