Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person's death is a death in custody if, when the person died, the person was—
(a) in custody; or
(b) escaping, or trying to escape, from custody; or
(c) trying to avoid being put into custody.
Example of paragraph (c)—
a suspected bank robber who dies in a car crash while being pursued by police
(2) In this section—
custody means detention, whether or not by a police officer, under—
(a) an arrest; or
(b) the authority of a court order; or
(c) the authority of an Act of the State, other than—
(i) the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006; or
(ii) the Mental Health Act 2000; or
(iii) the Forensic Disability Act 2011; or
(d) the authority of an Act of the Commonwealth.