Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) This section applies if the Secretary has received a notice under section 104ZE(1) in respect of legal proceedings against a prisoner to whom a prisoner compensation quarantine fund relates.
(2) The Secretary must not pay any money out of the prisoner compensation quarantine fund to any person until the end of the quarantine period for the fund.
(3) The Secretary must, within 45 days after the end of the quarantine period, pay out of the prisoner compensation quarantine fund to the persons entitled to payment any amounts required to satisfy—
(a) any award against the prisoner that was notified to the Secretary under section 104ZE(2); and
(b) any judgment debt against, or entitlement to be paid by, the prisoner that was notified to the Secretary under section 104ZF—
that the Secretary is satisfied is a valid claim on the prisoner.
(4) If the amount in the prisoner compensation quarantine fund is not sufficient to pay the amounts required to be paid out under subsection (3), the Secretary must make payments from the fund under that subsection on a pro rata basis having regard to any priority of payment required by law.
(5) If any amount remains in the prisoner compensation quarantine fund after all amounts are paid out under subsection (3), the Secretary must pay the remaining amount to or at the direction of the prisoner within, or as soon as practicable after the end of, the period of 45 days after the end of the quarantine period.
S. 104ZH inserted by No. 50/2008 s. 3.