Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 2016 - SECT 28

    (1)     A financial payment (a recognition payment ) may be made to a primary victim for trauma experienced by the primary victim as a result of an act of violence.

    (2)     A regulation may prescribe the following:

        (a)     an offence in the course of which the act of violence must occur for a recognition payment to be made;

        (b)     the amount of the recognition payment—

              (i)     generally; and

              (ii)     if a circumstance of aggravation applies to the offence in the course of which the act of violence occurs; and

              (iii)     if the act of violence results in a very serious injury that is likely to be permanent in the primary victim.