Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where a person has come to Australia pursuant to a request under section 16, the person shall be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be in Australia pursuant to the request during any period during which the person remains in Australia for the purpose of being tried for an Australian criminal offence that the person is alleged to have committed after the person's departure from the foreign country.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the person shall be kept in such custody as the Attorney - General directs under section 18.