NATIONAL REDRESS SCHEME FOR INSTITUTIONAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ACT 2018 - SECT 16 What redress is provided to a person?

NATIONAL REDRESS SCHEME FOR INSTITUTIONAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ACT 2018 - SECT 16

  (1)   Redress for a person consists of 3 components:

  (a)   a redress payment (of up to $150,000); and

  (b)   a counselling and psychological component which, depending on where the person lives (as stated in the person's application for redress), consists of:

  (i)   access to counselling and psychological services provided under the scheme; or

  (ii)   a payment (of up to $5,000) to enable the person to access counselling and psychological services provided outside of the scheme; and

  (c)   a direct personal response from:

  (i)   each of the participating institutions that are determined by the Operator under paragraph   29(2)(b) to be responsible for the abuse of the person; and

  (ii)   each of the partly - participating institutions that are determined by the Operator under paragraph   29(2)(j) to be responsible for the abuse of the person and for which the Operator determines under paragraph   29(2)(k) that a participating jurisdiction is a funder of last resort in relation to the abuse.

Note:   For what a direct personal response consists of, see subsection   54(2).

  (2)   A person who is entitled to redress under the scheme may choose to accept 1, 2 or all 3 of those components of redress.

  (3)   If 2 or more participating institutions or partly - participating institutions are determined to be responsible for the person's abuse and the person chooses to be given a direct personal response, then the person may choose to be given a direct personal response from each of those institutions, or from only some or one of them.