Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 120 of 1987 - SECT 49

49. After section 102 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Indemnification of Official Trustee

"102A. (1) The Commonwealth is, by force of this subsection, liable to
indemnify the Official Trustee against any personal liability (including any
personal liability as to costs) incurred by it for any act done, or omitted to
be done, by it in the exercise, or purported exercise, of its powers and
duties under this Act.

"(2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects:

   (a)  any right that the Official Trustee has, apart from that subsection,
        to be indemnified in respect of any personal liability referred to in
        that subsection; or

   (b)  any other indemnity given to the Official Trustee in respect of any
        such personal liability.

"(3) Where the Commonwealth makes a payment in accordance with the indemnity
referred to in subsection (1), the Commonwealth has the same right of
reimbursement in respect of the payment (including reimbursement under another
indemnity given to the Official Trustee) as the Official Trustee would have if
the Official Trustee had made the payment.".