65Removal of prisoner for judicial purposes

1. A prisoner may be—

2. brought up for trial or sentence (or for any bail application, remand, adjournment, or other ancillary proceeding); and
3. removed by or under the direction of the prison manager from one prison to another or from one place of confinement to another for any of these purposes or for the purpose of undergoing sentence.

4. Subsection (3) applies if—

5. a prisoner is charged with an offence, not being the offence for which the prisoner is in custody; or
6. a prisoner is the subject of an application under Part 1A of the Parole Act 2002 for an extended supervision order; or
7. a prisoner is the subject of an application for a public protection order under the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014; or
8. in any other case, the interests of justice require the attendance for judicial purposes of a prisoner.

9. If this subsection applies, any court or Judge or Registrar may, by order in writing, direct the manager of the prison in which the prisoner is detained to bring the prisoner, or to ensure that the prisoner is brought, before the court or, as the case may require, to arrange the attendance of the prisoner for those judicial purposes, as often as is necessary, and the manager must obey the order.

10. The court or Judge or Registrar making any order under subsection (3) must, if the order is made in a civil proceeding, and may, if it is made in any other proceeding, require any person applying for the order to deposit a sum sufficient to pay the expenses of bringing the prisoner before the court or, as the case may require, arranging the attendance of the prisoner for judicial purposes, and returning the prisoner to the prison in which he or she is required by law to be detained.

11. In subsection (4), expenses, in relation to a prisoner, includes the expenses of the prisoner's maintenance and custody from the time the prisoner leaves the prison until the time he or she returns.