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CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 1982 - SECT 81M

81M—Payments out of fund where notice from creditor received

        (1)         This section applies if the CE has been given notice by a person under section 81K and has not been notified under section 81J(1) of legal proceedings against that prisoner.

        (2)         The CE must not pay any money out of the prisoner compensation quarantine fund to any person until the end of the initial quarantine period for the fund.

        (3)         The CE must, within 45 days after the end of the initial quarantine period, pay out of the prisoner compensation quarantine fund to the persons entitled to payment any amounts required to satisfy any judgment debt against, or entitlement to be paid by, the prisoner

            (a)         that was notified to the CE under section 81K during the initial quarantine period; and

            (b)         that the CE 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 CE must make payments from the fund under that subsection on a proportionate basis having regard to any priority of payment required by law.

Example—

The law may require priority to be given to payment of (for example) child support.

        (5)         If any amount remains in the prisoner compensation quarantine fund after all amounts are paid out under subsection (3), the CE must, within or as soon as practicable after the end of the period of 45 days after the end of the initial quarantine period

            (a)         pay half of the remaining amount into the Victims of Crime Fund under the Victims of Crime Act 2001 ; and

            (b)         credit the other half of the remaining amount—

                  (i)         to the resettlement account kept in the prisoner's name in accordance with section 31; or

                  (ii)         if the prisoner has been discharged from prison—to an account nominated by the former prisoner.



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