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Visiting Forces (Penal Arrangements) Order 1963

NIUE LAWS
LEGISLATION AS AT DECEMBER 2006

VISITING FORCES (PENAL ARRANGEMENTS) ORDER 1963

1 This is the Visiting Forces (Penal Arrangements) Order 1963.

2 Members of a visiting force, if sentenced by a service court of that part of the Commonwealth to which the force belongs to penal servitude, imprisonment, or detention, may, under the authority of the Minister of Defence given at the request of the officer commanding the visiting force, and, in the case of a person who is to be detained in a prison, with the concurrence of the Minister of Justice, be temporarily detained in custody in prisons or detention barracks in Niue, and, if so sentenced to imprisonment, may, under the like authority and with the like concurrence, be imprisoned during the whole or any part of the term of their sentences in prisons in Niue.

3 The provisions of any enactment, regulations, rules or orders, so far as they relate to or are applied in relation to the reception of prisoners from and their return to the service authorities, their treatment while so imprisoned, the circumstances under which they are to be released, and the manner in which they are to be dealt with in the event of their unsoundness of mind while in such custody or while so imprisoned, shall apply in relation to the members of any visiting force sentenced as aforesaid in like manner as they apply to members of the New Zealand forces of a like nature to the visiting forces sentenced by a service court, subject to the modification that for any reference in any such enactment, regulations, rules, or orders to any service authority of the part of the Commonwealth to which the visiting force belongs, and subject to such other modifications as may be necessary.

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