ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1977 - SECT 111A
Compensation to offenders in custody--payment to Victims Support Fund
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1977 - SECT 111A
Compensation to offenders in custody--payment to Victims Support Fund
111A Compensation to offenders in custody--payment to Victims Support Fund
(1) In this section--
"offender damages" means damages ordered by the Tribunal under this Division
to be paid to a person--
(a) by way of compensation for any loss or damage
suffered by reason of the conduct of a protected defendant that occurred while
the person was an offender in custody, or
(b) by way of compensation for
failure by a protected defendant to comply with an order of the Tribunal made
in connection with a complaint about any such conduct.
"offender in custody" and
"protected defendant" have the same meanings as in Part 2A (Special provisions
for offenders in custody) of the Civil Liability Act 2002 .
(2) A
protected defendant who is liable to pay offender damages to a person must not
pay the damages to the person and instead must pay the amount of the damages
into the Victims Support Fund established under the
Victims Rights and Support Act 2013 to be expended as money forming part of
that Fund.
(3) Payment of an amount of damages into the Victims Support Fund
by a protected defendant pursuant to this section discharges the
protected defendant's liability to pay the damages to the person to whom the
damages were ordered to be paid.
(4) This section extends to any interest
that accrues on an amount of damages and a reference in this section to
damages includes interest on damages.
(5) This section does not apply to any
costs payable pursuant to an order of the Tribunal.
(6) This section does not
apply to any offender damages that are excluded by the regulations from the
operation of this section.
