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 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.