New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 30A

30A Reading out victim impact statements in court

(1) If a victim impact statement has been duly received by a court, a victim to whom it relates, or a person having parental responsibility for the victim, or a member of the immediate family, or other representative, of the victim, is entitled to read out the whole or any part of the statement to the court.

(2) The statement may be read out at such time as the court determines after it has convicted, but before it sentences, the offender.

(3) If the proceedings for the offence concerned are proceedings in which the victim to whom the victim impact statement relates is entitled to give evidence by means of closed-circuit television arrangements, the victim is also entitled to read out the statement in accordance with those closed-circuit television arrangements.

(4) For the purposes of this section, "closed-circuit television arrangements" means the arrangements for giving evidence provided for by section 294B or Division 4 of Part 6 of Chapter 6 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 .