Act Number: 3

Act Name: The Prisoners Act, 1900

Year: 1900

Enactment Date: 1900-02-02

Long Title: An Act to consolidate the law relating to Prisoners confined by order of a Court.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

Section 8: Delivery of persons sentenced to transportation by High Court.
    Where any person is sentenced by the High Court in the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction to transportation 1*** the Court shall cause him to be delivered for intermediate custody to the Superintendent, and the transportation 1*** of such person shall be deemed to commence from such delivery.
Notes:
1. The words "or penal servitude", omitted by Act 17 of 1949. s. 4.
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