Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

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This legislation has been repealed.

VICTIMS OF CRIME (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 1983 (REPEALED) - SECT 4

What is a criminal injury?

    (1)     A "criminal injury" is an injury—

        (a)     because of which the person who has sustained the injury is a primary victim; and

        (b)     sustained in the ACT; and

        (c)     sustained after 30 June 1983.

    (2)     For this Act, if a primary victim sustains 2 or more criminal injuries, they must be taken to be a single criminal injury if—

        (a)     the injuries were sustained at approximately the same time; or

        (b)     the injuries resulted from the criminal conduct of each of 2 or more people acting together; or

        (c)     the injuries otherwise arose out of the same circumstances.



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