Section 18Part 2 — Execution of sentences and care of detainees
Warrant of commitment and transfer
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The warrant referred to in section 16 shall be addressed to the officer in charge of prisons in Jamaica. It shall recite the conviction of the prisoner, the date of the conviction and the sentence imposed upon the person, and shall direct a prison officer to take that person in custody by a designated vessel or aircraft going direct to Kingston, and on arrival there to lodge that person together with the warrant in a District Prison if a male, or in the General Penitentiary if a female. And the warrant shall direct the officer in charge of prisons in Jamaica to receive the prisoner and keep that person in custody, to be dealt with in all respects as if the sentence imposed upon that person had been imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction in Jamaica.
The prison officer referred to in subsection (1) shall take such prisoner in that prison officer's custody and shall forthwith comply with the terms of the warrant.
The Governor, on being satisfied that —
adequate provision has been made in the Islands for the detention of all convicted prisoners; and
there is no further need for any convicted prisoner to be transferred to Jamaica under subsection (1), may repeal this section by order.
Cross References
- Section 16 of Prisons Act
Power to send certain convicted prisoners to serve sentence in Jamaica