Criminal Offence Victims Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 (Qld)

Queensland Criminal Offence Victims Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 Subordinate Legislation 2006 No. 323 made under the Criminal Offence Victims Act 1995 Contents Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of s 4 (Prescribed amount for payment of funeral expenses to dependant or member of family of person who is unlawfully killed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of s 5 (Prescribed amount for payment of damage expenses to dependant or member of family of person who is unlawfully killed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

s1 2 s4 Criminal Offence Victims Amendment Regulation No. 323, 2006 (No. 1) 2006 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Criminal Offence Victims Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 . 2 Commencement This regulation is taken to have commenced on 19 July 2006. 3 Regulation amended This regulation amends the CriminalOffenceVictimsRegulation 1995 . 4 Amendment of s 4 (Prescribed amount for payment of funeral expenses to dependant or member of family of person who is unlawfully killed) (1) Section 4, ‘$4000’— omit, insert— ‘$6000’. (2) Section 4— insert — ‘(2) Also, the prescribed amount for section 35(2)(b) and (3)(a) of the Act is $6000 if— (a) an application made under section 35(2)(b) or (3)(a) of the Act before 19 July 2006 was not decided before that date; and (b) no other application for the same death was made under section 35(2) or (3) of the Act and decided before 19 July 2006. ‘(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that if an application in relation to a particular death was made under section 35(2) or (3) of the Act and decided before 19 July 2006, the prescribed amount in relation to the death is $4000, even if another application for the same death is made under section 35(2) or (3) of the Act before or after 19 July 2006.’.

s5 3 s5 Criminal Offence Victims Amendment Regulation No. 323, 2006 (No. 1) 2006 5 Amendment of s 5 (Prescribed amount for payment of damage expenses to dependant or member of family of person who is unlawfully killed) (1) Section 5, ‘$2000’— omit, insert— ‘$3000’. (2) Section 5— insert — ‘(2) Also, the prescribed amount for section 35(2)(c) and (3)(b) of the Act is $3000 if— (a) an application made under section 35(2)(c) or (3)(b) of the Act before 19 July 2006 was not decided before that date; and (b) no other application for the same death was made under section 35(2) or (3) of the Act and decided before 19 July 2006. ‘(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that if an application in relation to a particular death was made under section 35(2) or (3) of the Act and decided before 19 July 2006, the prescribed amount in relation to the death is $2000, even if another application for the same death is made under section 35(2) or (3) of the Act before or after 19 July 2006.’. ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 21 December 2006. 2 Notified in the gazette on 22 December 2006. 3 Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4 The administering agency is the Department of Justice and Attorney-General. © State of Queensland 2006