Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this Act
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victim of an offender or prisoner means —
(a) a
person who has suffered injury, loss or damage as a direct result of an
offence committed by the offender or prisoner, whether or not that injury,
loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable by the offender or prisoner; or
(b)
where an offence committed by the offender or prisoner resulted in a death,
any member of the immediate family of the deceased; or
(c) a
person protected by a family violence restraining order under the Restraining
Orders Act 1997 to which the offender or prisoner is a respondent; or
(d) a
person who can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the CEO that —
(i)
the person is the victim of a violent personal offence
previously committed by the offender or prisoner; and
(ii)
the violent personal offence occurred in the context of a
family relationship, as defined in the Restraining Orders Act 1997 section 4,
with the offender or prisoner.
violent personal offence means —
(a) an
offence specified in the Restraining Orders Act 1997 section 63(4AA)(a); or
(b) a
violent personal offence as defined in the Restraining Orders Act 1997 section
63A(1A).
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1) in the definition of victim paragraph (c) or (d), it is
irrelevant that the family violence restraining order or the previous violent
personal offence, as the case requires, is unrelated to the offence referred
to in paragraph (a) or (b) of that definition.
[Section 5D inserted: No. 49 of 2016 s. 110.]