New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 33

33 Interim awards of compensation

(1) Pending the determination of an application for statutory compensation, the compensation assessor may:

(a) if it appears that the person to whom the application relates is in severe financial hardship, or

(b) in the case of a family victim, if payment is due for funeral expenses relating to the primary victim, or

(c) in such other circumstances as the compensation assessor considers appropriate,

make an interim award of statutory compensation to that person.

(2) An interim award is not to be made unless the compensation assessor is satisfied that the applicant will be entitled to receive statutory compensation when the application is determined.

(3) If an interim award is made but the application for statutory compensation is then dismissed, the amount of the interim award becomes a debt due to the Compensation Fund Corporation by the applicant.

(4) If, on determining the application, the compensation assessor decides to award statutory compensation to the person to whom the application relates, the assessor must deduct the amount of any interim award of statutory compensation from the amount of statutory compensation that the assessor would otherwise have awarded.

(5) An interim award of statutory compensation for funeral expenses referred to in subsection (1) (b) may only be made to the extent that the expenses are reasonable.