329 (1t.C>r kttlaxt^ y ANNO SEPTIMO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 44 of 1968 An Act to Amend The Criminal Code to enable provision to be made for the payment of compensation to persons who suffer injury in certain circumstances [ASSENTED TO 19TH DECEMBER, 19681 BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title . This Act may be cited as The Criminal Code Amendment Act 1968, and shall be read as one with The Criminal Code. 2. Commencement . This Act shall commence on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine. 3. Application of Act. This Act does not apply in respect of compensation for injury suffered before the commencement of this Act. 4. New ss. 663A to 663E. The Criminal Code is amended by inserting after section 663 the following words and sections:- " CHAPTER LXVA COMPENSATION FOR INJURY 663A. Interpretation . In this Chapter. unless the context otherwise indicates or requires the following terms shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them, that is to say:- injury "--bodily harm and includes pregnancy, mental shock and nervous shock;
330 Criminal Code Amendment Act 1968, No. 44 " Minister "-the Minister for Justice and Attorney- General or other Minister of the Crown for the time being charged with the administration of this Code. The term includes a Minister of the Crown temporarily performing the duties of the Minister charged with the administration of this Code. 663B . Court may order payment for compensation . (1) Where a person is convicted on indictment of any indictable offence relating to the person of any person, the Court, on the application by or on behalf of the person aggrieved by the offence, may, in addition to any other sentence or order it may make, order him to pay to the person aggrieved a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars by way of compensation for injury suffered by him by reason of the offence of which the offender is convicted. (2) In determining whether or not to make an order under subsection (1) of this section and in determining the amount of any order, the Court shall have regard to any behaviour of the person aggrieved which directly or indirectly contributed to the injury suffered by him, and to such other circumstances as it considers relevant (including whether the person aggrieved is or was a relative of the convicted person or was at the time of the commission of the offence, living with the convicted person as his wife or her husband or as a member of the convicted person's household) and to the other provisions of this Chapter. (3) If any money was found on the person of the offender on his arrest, the Court may, if it is satisfied that the money is the