Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Notwithstanding
any law or any rule of practice to the contrary, it shall not be necessary in
a warrant or other instrument under which a prisoner is committed to prison to
specify a particular prison in which the prisoner is to be confined nor to
address the warrant or other instrument to the superintendent of a particular
prison; and a commitment to prison addressed to the chief executive officer
shall be sufficient.
(2) Where before or
after the coming into operation of this Act a prisoner was or is committed to
a particular prison or the warrant or other instrument was or is addressed to
the superintendent of a particular prison, the warrant and instrument shall be
read, and shall be given effect to, as if it were a commitment to prison
addressed to the chief executive officer.
(3)
Subsection (2) shall not apply to any order made by the Governor.
(4) Any writ, warrant,
or other instrument addressed to the superintendent of a particular prison
describing the prison by its situation or some other description shall be
valid notwithstanding whatever title such prison is usually known by or
whatever be the accurate description of the prison.
[Section 19 amended by No. 47 of 1987
s. 11; No. 113 of 1987 s. 32.]