New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 16

16 Compensation payable to family victims

(1) The statutory compensation for which all family victims of an act of violence are together eligible is, subject to this Act, $50,000.

(2) If there are 2 or more family victims of an act of violence:

(a) the victims are eligible to an equal share of the amount of $50,000, subject to paragraph (b), and

(b) victims who were not dependent family members at the time of the act of violence are not eligible for any amount of compensation if there are also dependent family members at that time.

(3) A family victim is a "dependent family member" if:

(a) the person was dependent on the primary victim at the relevant time, or

(b) the person is a child of the primary victim born after the death of the victim where, had the child been born in the victim’s lifetime, the child would have been a dependent family member of the victim by virtue of paragraph (a).