New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 11

11 Compensable injuries described by reference to act of violence

(1) This section applies when the schedule of compensable injuries specifies, as a compensable injury, all injuries received as a direct result of a specified act of violence and specifies a single standard amount or range of compensation for all of those injuries.

(2) An applicant for statutory compensation may elect whether to claim compensation of that single standard amount or range or to claim compensation of the total standard amounts for each of the injuries received by the applicant (subject to any discount rates or other provisions in the schedule of compensable injuries).

(3) In the absence of an election, the person determining the application is to make the election.

Note: See injury described in Schedule 1 as sexual assault.