CHAPTER 21:04
INTERSTATE TRANSFER OF PRISONERS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Agreements to facilitate transfer

    4.    Eligibility for transfer from Botswana

    5.    Eligibility for transfer to Botswana

    6.    Persons sentenced to death not eligible for transfer

    7.    Conditions of transfer

    8.    Application for transfer

    9.    Grant or refusal of application by the Minister

    10.    Facilitation of transfer

    11.    Issue of warrant for transfer from Botswana

    12.    Issue of warrant for transfer to Botswana

    13.    Appeals

    14.    Regulations

Act 12, 2017,
S.I. 8, 2018.

An Act to make provision for the transfer of prisoners between Botswana and countries with which Botswana has entered into agreements for the transfer of prisoners; and for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

[Date of Commencement: 1st February, 2018]

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Interstate Transfer of Prisoners Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "appropriate authority" means an officer responsible under an enactment of a transfer country for administering the transfer of prisoners to and from that transfer country, and includes any officer delegated in that capacity;

    "Commissioner" means a person appointed as Commissioner of Prisons and Rehabilitation under the Prisons Act (Cap. 21:03);

    "health officer" means a medical practitioner registered in terms of the Botswana Health Professions Act (Cap. 63:01), and includes a health inspector and a public health nurse;

    "prisoner" means a person serving a sentence of imprisonment or confined under an order made by a court in exercise of its criminal jurisdiction; and