Chapter 4
Cooperation with and assistence to Court in or outside South Africa
Part 2
Judicial assistance to court (ss 14-32)
20 Transfer of prisoner to give evidence or to assist in investigations
Despite any other law-
(a) where the Central Authority receives a request from the Court or the Prosecutor of the Court for the transfer of a prisoner in the Republic into the custody of the Court, for the purpose of giving evidence or assisting in an investigation, the Central Authority must transmit the request to the Cabinet member responsible for correctional services;
(b) if the prisoner consents to the transfer, the Commissioner of Correctional Services or any person authorised thereto by him or her in writing may issue the prescribed warrant for the transfer of the prisoner, into the custody of the Court in accordance with the arrangements made by the Cabinet member responsible for correctional services with the Registrar or the Prosecutor of the Court;
(c) any period of imprisonment served in the custody of the Court, by a prisoner transferred under this section, must be regarded as a period of imprisonment served in the Republic for purposes of calculating the remaining term of imprisonment of that person; and
(d) the Commissioner of Correctional Services must, where it appears that the term of imprisonment of the transferred prisoner will expire while that prisoner is still in the custody of the Court, in writing inform the Registrar of the date on which that term of imprisonment will expire.
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