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CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION ACT 2003 - SECT 4

4 .         Term used: close relative

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, a close relative of a victim who dies or is injured as a consequence of the commission of an offence, is a person who, immediately before the offence was committed, was —

            (a)         a parent, grandparent or step-parent of the victim; or

            (b)         the spouse or a de facto partner of the victim; or

            (c)         a child, grandchild or stepchild of the victim.

        (2)         The presumptions of parentage in the Family Court Act 1997 Part 5 Division 11 Subdivision 3 operate, and section 193 of that Act operates in respect of those presumptions, for the purposes of this Act.



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