New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 42

42 Compensation Fund Corporation to pay compensation

(1) An application for payment of the whole or any part of an award of statutory compensation (other than statutory compensation for prescribed expenses) or costs (including costs awarded in respect of an application for statutory compensation for prescribed expenses) under this Part is to be made to the Director who is required to forward the application to the Compensation Fund Corporation.

(1A) After an award of statutory compensation for prescribed expenses is made, the Director is required to forward to the Compensation Fund Corporation a copy of the notice under section 29 of the determination concerned.

(2) On receiving the application or notice (as the case may be), the Compensation Fund Corporation must (subject to the conditions of the award and any deductions made in accordance with those conditions) pay the relevant amount to the person to whom the award is payable.

(3) The amount is to be paid out of the Compensation Fund or, if sufficient money is not available in that Fund, out of the Consolidated Fund which is, to the extent necessary, appropriated accordingly.