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NORFOLK ISLAND ACT 1979 - SECT 60K

Person taken to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923

  (1)   This section applies if a person who has been removed to a host jurisdiction under this Act:

  (a)   is found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offence; or

  (b)   is found or certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be unfit, on the ground of insanity, to be tried for the offence; or

  (c)   is convicted of an offence and afterwards certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be insane.

  (2)   The person is taken:

  (a)   to be a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 ; and

  (b)   to have been removed to that jurisdiction under that Act.

  (3)   Sections   9 and 10A of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.



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