Queensland Consolidated Acts

CORRECTIVE SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 311

(1) The chief executive must keep a trust fund called the prisoners trust fund.

(2) The prisoners trust fund is to consist of an account for each prisoner for whom an amount is received by the chief executive.

(3) Subject to section 311A, all amounts received for a prisoner by the chief executive must be paid into the prisoner's account in the prisoners trust fund.

(4) If the public trustee is managing the prisoner's estate and the public trustee asks for the payment, the chief executive must pay the amount in the prisoner's account to the public trustee.

(5) A prisoner may, with the chief executive's approval, spend an amount that is in the prisoner's account.

(6) The chief executive may limit any or all of the following—

(a) the amount that may be received as a single receipt for a prisoner;

(b) the amount that may be held in a prisoner's account in the prisoners trust fund;

(c) the amount a prisoner may spend.

(7) When a prisoner is discharged or released, the chief executive must pay the prisoner the amount in the prisoner's account.