New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 32

32 Persons to whom compensation may be made payable

(1) An award of statutory compensation may be made payable:

(a) to the person to whom the application for statutory compensation relates, or

(b) to any other person for the benefit of that person.

(2) In making a decision as to whom an award of statutory compensation should be made payable, the compensation assessor must have regard to the likelihood that a person by whom an act of violence was allegedly committed may receive the benefit of the award or any part of the award.

(3) Sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 apply to money recovered under an award of statutory compensation in the same way as they apply to money recovered as referred to in section 77 (1) of that Act.