New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 19

19 Maximum amount of compensation

(1) The maximum amount of statutory compensation payable to a single person in respect of an act of violence is $50,000.

(2) The maximum amount of statutory compensation that all of the following victims are together eligible to receive is $50,000:

(a) a primary victim of an act of violence,

(b) all secondary victims claiming through that primary victim,

(c) all family victims claiming through that primary victim.

(3) If entitlements to statutory compensation are required to be reduced because of the maximum amount provided by this section:

(a) the amounts payable to secondary victims are to be reduced rather than the amounts payable to primary victims or family victims, and

(b) the amount of $50,000 payable to family members is to be reduced by any amount paid to a primary victim (or to any secondary victim claiming through the primary victim) before the primary victim’s death.

(4) If the amount of statutory compensation otherwise payable to 2 or more secondary victims is to be reduced because of this section, the amount available to be paid is to be apportioned among those victims in the same proportions as the amount otherwise payable to each such victim bears to the total of those amounts.

(5) This section applies despite any other provision of this Act (except section 20).