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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 48A
48A Sentence ceases to run while escaped prisoner at large
- (1)
- A person who commits an offence against section 47
or 47B
shall, upon being returned to lawful custody, undergo, in
addition to any punishment imposed for that offence, the
punishment that the person would have undergone if the
person had not escaped.
- (2)
- If a person who is undergoing punishment for an offence
against a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory
commits an offence against a law of a State or Territory
that corresponds to section 47
or 47B,
the person is, upon being returned to lawful custody, to
undergo (in addition to any punishment imposed for the
corresponding offence and any other punishment that the
person is required to undergo under the law of the State
or Territory) the punishment that the person would have
undergone for the first-mentioned offence if the person
had not escaped.
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