Victorian Numbered Acts

PRISONERS (INTERSTATE TRANSFER) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2005 (NO 81 OF 2005) - SECT 1

The purpose of this Act is—

        (a)     to amend the Prisoners (Interstate Transfer) Act 1983 to clarify and expand the grounds to be considered by the Minister in assessing requests by prisoners to be transferred to or from Victoria; and

        (b)     to amend the Corrections Act 1986 —

              (i)     to make provision in relation to people on extended supervision orders under the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2005 who are directed to attend at community corrections centres, or to receive visits from officers, for the purposes of that Act; and

              (ii)     to improve the administration of that Act.