New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 20

20 Threshold amount of compensation

(1) Statutory compensation is not payable to a single person unless the total amount of compensation payable to that person, as compensation for compensable injuries, is at least:

(a) subject to paragraph (b)-$7,500, or

(b) such other amount as is prescribed by the regulations.

(3) This section does not apply to statutory compensation payable to family victims or statutory compensation for prescribed expenses.

(3A) For the purposes of this section:

(a) the total amount of compensation payable to a person as compensation for compensable injuries is the total amount arrived at after any reduction in that compensation to be made under section 19, 30 or 31 or the schedule of compensable injuries, and

(b) no other reduction in that compensation made under this Act is to be taken into account in determining the total amount of that compensation.

(4) This section applies despite any other provision of this Act.