The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

216 s.663~ CRIMINAL CODE
(iii) the offender has not been convicted on an indictment
presented in relation to that offence,
may make application in writing to the Minister for the approval of the
Governor in Council for the payment to him from the Consolidated
Revenue Fund of a sum not exceeding the prescribed, amount by way
of compensation for injury so suffered by him.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the Minister shall,
as soon as practicable after receiving an application under subsection
( 1 ) of this section, submit to the Governor in Council a report specifying-
(a) particulars of the application;
(b) the circumstances of the offence or incident by reason of
which the injury was suffered, including particulars o€ the
injury suffered by the applicant;
(c) particulars of any report by a police officer concerning the
oEence;
(d) particulars of any medical examination relating to1 the injury
at or near the time the injury was suffered;
(e) any amounts which, to the knowledge of the Minister, the
applicant has received or in the opinion of the Minister the
applicant would, if he had exhausted all relevant rights of
action and other legal remedies available to him, receive,
independently of subsection (4) of this section, by reason
of the injury to which the application relates;
(f) particulars of any medical examination of the applicant
which may have been requested by the Minister; and
(g) such other matters concerning the application as the Minister
thinks fit.
(3) The Minister may defer submitting his report to the Governor
in Council for as long as he considers it necessary to do so to enable
him to specify in his report the amounts referred to in paragraph (e) of
subsection (2) of this section.
(4) The Governor in Council upon examining the report of the
Minister under subsection (2) of this section may, if he considers that
in the circumstances of the case the making of a payment to the applicant
of a sum in excess of one hundred dollars is justified, approve that the
Treasurer pay to the applicant, in such manner and subject to such
conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit, such amount not
exceediiig the prescribed amount as the Governor in Council thinks fit,
having regard to- the amounts referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection
(2) of this section.
(5) The limitation as to amount mentioned in subsections (1) and
(4) of this section shall not apply in respect of a person who suffers
injury in the circumstances specified in paragraph (a) of subsection
(1) of this section.
Inserted (as from 1 Jan. 1969) by Act of 1968, No. 44, s. 4; as amended
by Act of 1975, No. 27, s. 33.
663~. General. (1) Any payments under subsection (4) of section
663c of this Code or under subsection (4) of section 66311 of this Code
may be made without further appropriation than this subsection.
(2) Where any payment is made under subsection (4) of section
663c of this Code or under subsection (4) of section 663~ of this Code,