Western Australian Current Acts

SENTENCING ACT 1995 - SECT 117

117 .         Compensation order in favour of victim

        (1)         A court sentencing an offender may make a compensation order in favour of a victim of the offence.

        (2)         Such a compensation order is an order that the offender must pay an amount of money set by the court to the victim as compensation for —

            (a)         the loss of, or damage to, the victim’s property; and

            (b)         any expense reasonably incurred by the victim,

                as a direct or indirect result of the commission of the offence.

        (2a)         A compensation order must not be made in respect of injury or loss within the meaning of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 2003 .

        (3)         In fixing the amount of money to be paid under a compensation order for loss or damage to property, it does not matter whether that loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable by the offender.

        [Section 117 amended: No. 57 of 1999 s. 30; No. 77 of 2003 s. 73.]