VICTIMS RIGHTS AND SUPPORT ACT 2013 - SECT 97 Directions for compensation for loss

VICTIMS RIGHTS AND SUPPORT ACT 2013 - SECT 97

97 Directions for compensation for loss

(1) A court that convicts a person of an offence may (on the conviction or at any time afterwards), by notice given to the offender, direct that a specified sum be paid out of the property of the offender to any--

(a) aggrieved person, or

(b) aggrieved persons in such proportions as may be specified in the direction,

by way of compensation for any loss sustained through, or by reason of, the offence or, if applicable, any further offence that the court has taken into account under Division 3 of Part 3 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 in imposing a penalty for an offence for which the offender has been convicted.

(2) A direction for compensation may be given by a court on its own initiative or on an application made to it by or on behalf of the aggrieved person.