New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (ADMINISTRATION OF SENTENCES) ACT 1999 - SECT 261

261 Address of warrant

(1) Any warrant, order or other instrument addressed to the governor of a correctional centre describing the correctional centre by its situation or other definite description is valid whatever the formal description of the correctional centre.

(3) A warrant addressed to the governor of a correctional centre may be received by the governor of any other correctional centre or by the person in charge of any police station or court cell complex.

(4) A warrant addressed to the person in charge of a police station may be received by the person in charge of any other police station or by the governor of a correctional centre.

(5) Nothing in this section authorises the detention of a person for the whole or part of a sentence in one or more police stations for more than one month at a time.

(6) This section applies in respect of a residential facility and a manager of a residential facility in the same way as it applies to a correctional centre and a governor of a correctional centre.