Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Upon the commencement of this Act, the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923-1968 ceases to authorize the removal of prisoners or criminal lunatics from the Territory.
(2) Subject to this Act, section 7, sub-section (3) of section 8, and sections 8A and 10A of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923-1968 apply, so far as they are capable of so applying, to and in relation to a person who is being detained in a prison in the State under this Act as if his removal from the Territory to the State had been effected in pursuance of that Act and, in the case of a person who is not a prisoner or criminal lunatic within the meaning of that Act, as if he were a prisoner within the meaning of that Act.