New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 35A

35A Review of amount awarded as Victims Assistance

(1) An applicant for Victims Assistance may apply to the Director for the correction of a miscalculation in the amount awarded by a compensation assessor as Victims Assistance.

(2) An application to the Director under this section must be made within 28 days after the day on which the relevant notice of the determination of the compensation assessor was duly served.

(3) Any such application must be in the form required by the rules and must be lodged with the Director.

(4) The Director may determine the application by:

(a) affirming the amount awarded by the compensation assessor, or

(b) varying the award by correcting any miscalculation in the amount of the award.

(5) Written notice is to be given to an applicant under this section of the determination of the Director.