International Transfer of Prisoners (Transfer of Sentenced Persons Convention) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1)¹

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the International Transfer of Prisoners Act 1997.

Dated 29 March 2007

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

PHILIP RUDDOCK

1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the International Transfer of Prisoners (Transfer of Sentenced Persons Convention) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1).

2              Commencement

                These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3              Amendment of International Transfer of Prisoners (Transfer of Sentenced Persons Convention) Regulations 2002

                Schedule 1 amends the International Transfer of Prisoners (Transfer of Sentenced Persons Convention) Regulations 2002.

Schedule 1        Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1]           Regulation 5

substitute

5              Application of the Act

         (1)   For section 8 of the Act, the Act applies to each country specified in Schedule 2, subject to the Convention.

         (2)   However, subregulation (1) does not apply to the United States of America for the transfer to Australia of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment ordered by a military commission established under chapter 47A of title 10 of the United States Code.

Note   For the application of the Act to the transfer to Australia of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment ordered by a military commission as described, see the International Transfer of Prisoners Military Commission of the United States of America) Regulations 2007.

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