Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThe Governor - General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for giving effect to this Act, and in particular for providing for:
(a) the removal, return and discharge of prisoners and criminal lunatics under this Act; and
(b) varying the conditions of a sentence of imprisonment passed in a Territory, where those conditions differ from the conditions of a sentence of imprisonment in the State or Territory to which the prisoner is removed, with a view to bringing them into conformity with the latter conditions:
Provided that no such variation shall increase the term of the sentence of imprisonment.
Notes to the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923
Note 1
The Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 14, 1923 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Acts
Act | Number | Date | Date of commencement | Application, saving or transitional provisions | |
14, 1923 | 1 Sept 1923 | 1 Sept 1923 |
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Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1935 | 11, 1936 | 27 May 1936 | 27 May 1936 | -- | |
Statute Law Revision Act 1950 | 80, 1950 | 16 Dec 1950 | 31 Dec 1950 | Ss. 16 and 17 | |
Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1957 | 2, 1957 | 15 Apr 1957 | 15 Apr 1957 | -- | |
Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1962 | 69, 1962 | 24 Nov 1962 | 22 Dec 1962 | -- | |
Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1968 | 9, 1968 | 8 May 1968 | 8 May 1968 | -- | |
Statute Law Revision Act 1973 | 216, 1973 | 19 Dec 1973 | 31 Dec 1973 | ||
91, 1976 | 20 Sept 1976 | 20 Sept 1976 : (a) | |||
36, 1978 | 12 June 1978 | 12 June 1978 | |||
Australian Federal Police (Consequential Amendments) Act 1979 | 155, 1979 | 28 Nov 1979 | 19 Oct 1979 : ( see s. 2 and Gazette 1979, No. S206) | -- | |
Australian Federal Police (Consequential Amendments) Act 1980 | 70, 1980 | 28 May 1980 | 28 May 1980 | -- | |
96, 1983 | 22 Nov 1983 | Ss. 1, 2 and 6: Royal Assent | S. 7(2) | ||
193, 1985 | 16 Dec 1985 | S. 3: Royal Assent (b) | S. 16 | ||
120, 1987 | 16 Dec 1987 | Part II
(ss. 3 - 9) , Parts VI, VII (ss. 30- 33), ss. 34 - 46, 48 - 50, Part IX
(ss. 51, 52), 53 - 55 and 59: Royal Assent | -- | ||
141, 1987 | 18 Dec 1987 | S. 3: Royal Assent (c) | S. 5(1), (18) and (19) | ||
38, 1988 | 3 June 1988 | S. 3: Royal Assent (d) | |||
73, 2008 | 3 July 2008 | Schedule 1: (items 38-40): Royal Assent | -- | ||
(a) The Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 was amended by section 3 only of the Administrative Changes (Consequential Provisions) Act 1976 , subsection 2(7) of which provides as follows:
(7) The amendments of each other Act specified in the Schedule made by this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 22 December 1975 .
(b) The Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1985 , subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:
(1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(c) The Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1987 , subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:
(1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(d) The Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1988 , subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
See, in connexion with the removal of prisoners from Christmas Island and the application of this Act to Christmas Island , section 18 of the Christmas Island Act 1958 . In respect of the Australian Capital Territory see Removal of Prisoners ( Australian Capital Territory ) Act 1968 .
Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted | |
Provision affected | How affected |
S. 2 .................... | am. No. 80, 1950; No. 69, 1962; No. 216, 1973; No. 155, 1979; No. 70, 1980; No. 73, 2008 |
S. 2A ................... | ad. No. 2, 1957 |
S. 3 .................... | am. No. 69, 1962; No. 96, 1983; No. 73, 2008 |
am. No. 73, 2008 | |
S. 7 .................... | rep. No. 120, 1987 |
ad. No. 141, 1987 | |
S. 8 .................... | am. No. 11, 1936; No. 69, 1962; No. 73, 2008 |
S. 8AA ................. | ad. No. 96, 1983 |
| rs. No. 193, 1985 |
S. 8A ................... | ad. No. 69, 1982 |
| am. No. 9, 1968; No. 91, 1 976; No. 36, 1978; No. 38, 1988; No. 73, 2008 |
S. 9 .................... | am. No. 69, 1962; No. 73, 2008 |
S. 10 ................... | am. No. 73, 2008 |
S. 10A .................. | ad. No. 69, 1962 |
| am. No. 9, 1968; No. 91, 1 976; No. 36, 1978; No. 38, 1988 ; No. 73, 2008 |
am. No. 69, 1962 ; No. 73, 2008 | |
Note 2
S. 2A--By order published in the Gazette on 25 July 1957 it was declared that, for the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the office of Official Representative in that Territory be substituted for the office of Administrator.
By order published in the Gazette on 23 October 1958 it was declared that, for the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to the Territory of Christmas Island, the office of Official Representative in that Territory be substituted for the office of Administrator.