Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Property damage caused by escapers

187: Notification and payment of compensation

You could also call this:

"Getting paid if someone escapes and you're affected"

If a court decides you should get compensation under section 185, the court's Registrar must tell the chief executive about it. You will get the compensation money from different sources depending on the situation of the person who escaped. If the escaper was in a contract prison, the contractor who managed that prison pays you, but if the escaper was with a security officer, the security company that employed the officer pays you.

If neither of these situations applies, you get the money from a Crown Bank Account, which is funded by Parliament. The court's decision is based on section 185, and the payment process follows specific rules. You receive the compensation according to these rules, which are in place to ensure you get the money you are owed.

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186: Rules governing compensation, or

"Getting paid back for damage caused by someone who escaped from prison"

188: Hearing of claims, or

"When you ask for money because something of yours was lost or damaged, a court will listen to your story and decide if you should get paid."

Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Property damage caused by escapers

187Notification and payment of compensation

The Registrar of a court making any award of compensation under section 185 must notify the chief executive of the award.
The amount of any compensation awarded by any court under section 185 must be paid,—
if, at the time the escaper escaped, the escaper was a prisoner of a contract prison, by the contractor responsible for managing that prison:
despite paragraph (a), if, at the time the escaper escaped, the escaper was under the control of a security officer, by the security contractor by whom that security officer was employed at the time:
in any other case, out of a Crown Bank Account from money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

Compare

1954 No 51 s 41A(8), (10)

Notes

Section 187(2)(c): amended, on 25 January 2005, pursuant to section 65R(3) of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).