CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 104V Damages awarded to prisoner to be paid to prisoner compensation quarantine fund

CORRECTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 104V

    (1)     The amount of any award of damages to a prisoner in respect of a civil wrong must be paid by the State to the Secretary immediately after the damages are awarded.

    (2)     The amount to be paid under subsection (1) does not include any amount specified in the award of damages made or approved by the court as attributable to—

        (a)     existing and future medical costs; and

        (b)     legal costs.

    (3)     An amount paid to the Secretary under subsection (1)—

        (a)     must be held in trust for the prisoner by the Secretary during the quarantine period and until the final payment is made out of the prisoner compensation quarantine fund in accordance with this Part; and

        (b)     may be paid out of the prisoner compensation quarantine fund only as authorised by this Part.

    (4)     Money held by the Secretary in trust for a prisoner under this Part constitutes a prisoner compensation quarantine fund .

    (5)     This section does not apply if the amount that would, but for this subsection, be required to be paid to the Secretary under subsection (1) does not exceed $10 000.

S. 104W inserted by No. 50/2008 s. 3.