New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 250

250 Transport and detention of persons in custody

(1) A person in custody may be given into the keeping of a correctional officer.

(2) A correctional officer into whose keeping a person in custody has been given--

(a) may convey the person to any correctional centre, court or other place, and

(b) may detain the person in any correctional centre or other place.

(3) A warrant of commitment or other warrant, or an order of a court or other competent authority, authorising the conveyance of a person in custody to, or the detention of a person in custody in, a correctional centre authorises a correctional officer to convey the person to the correctional centre referred to in the warrant or order.