New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 23

23 Eligibility to receive compensation in respect of same act of violence

(1) A person is not eligible to receive more than one award of statutory compensation in respect of the same act of violence (except as provided by subsection (1A)).

(1A) This section does not prevent a person from receiving an award of statutory compensation to which section 14 applies in addition to an award of statutory compensation for prescribed expenses in respect of the same act of violence.

Note: However, section 14 (3) prevents a person from being granted compensation for financial loss to the extent that statutory compensation for prescribed expenses has been awarded for that loss. Further, under section 14A (6), statutory compensation for prescribed expenses is not payable to a person to the extent that the person has been awarded statutory compensation to which section 14 applies in respect of the same act of violence.

(2) No more than one award of compensation may be made with respect to any one application for statutory compensation.

(3) A person is eligible to receive statutory compensation in respect of the same act of violence in only one of the capacities of primary victim, secondary victim or family victim.