The paper concerns the issue of the terms for submitting a subsidiary indictment. The jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, formed in the first decade of 2000, stated that procedural deadline for such indictment in each case begins in the date of delivery of the relevant decision to the victim, regardless of the date of its delivery to authorised representatives, such as attorney. However, the arguments raised for justification of the mentioned thesis seems to have lost their relevance. Therefore, they were subjected to critical analysis in this study, which include subsequent changes in the Code of Criminal Procedure.