Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1989 No. 4 of 1990 - SECT 17

17. Section 21B of the Principal Act is amended:
   (a)   by omitting from subsection (1) "an offence against the law

of the Commonwealth" (wherever occurring) and substituting " a federal
offence";
   (b)   by adding at the end the following subsections:


"(2) A person is not to be imprisoned for a failure to pay an amount required
to be paid under an order made under subsection (1).

"(3) Where:

   (a)  the court orders a federal offender to make reparation to the
        Commonwealth, to a public authority of the Commonwealth or to any
        other person by way of payment of an amount of money; and

   (b)  the clerk, or other appropriate officer, of the court signs a
        certificate specifying:

        (i)    the amount of money to be paid by way of reparation; and

        (ii)   the identity of the person to whom the amount of money is to be
               paid; and

        (iii)  the identity of the person by whom the amount is to be paid;
               and

   (c)  the certificate is filed in a court (which may be the first-mentioned
        court) having civil jurisdiction to the extent of the amount to be
        paid; the certificate is enforceable in all respects as a final
        judgment of the court in which it is filed in favour of the
        Commonwealth, of that public authority or of that person.".