Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL REDRESS SCHEME FOR INSTITUTIONAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ACT 2018 - SECT 45

Declining by taking positive action

  (1)   A person may decline an offer of redress by giving the Operator, before the end of the acceptance period, a document that:

  (a)   is in the approved form; and

  (b)   states that the person declines the offer; and

  (c)   acknowledges that the person understands the effect of declining the offer (including that the person will not be able to make another application for redress under the scheme); and

  (d)   is signed by the person; and

  (e)   complies with any requirements prescribed by the rules.

Declining by not accepting in the acceptance period

  (2)   A person is taken to have declined an offer of redress if the person does not accept the offer in accordance with section   42 before the end of the acceptance period.

  (3)   Subsection   (2) does not apply if:

  (a)   the person has applied for review under section   73 of the Operator's determination on the person's application for redress; and

  (b)   the review has not been completed at the end of the acceptance period.