New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 44

44 Recovery from fraudulent claimants

(1) If a person is convicted of:

(a) an offence of obtaining an award of statutory compensation by means of fraud or false pretence or by means of a wilfully false or wilfully misleading statement, or

(b) an offence, in relation to the obtaining of an award of statutory compensation, of a kind prescribed by the rules,

the Tribunal may, on application by the Director, make an order for restitution for such amount as has been paid to the person under the award.

(2) An order for restitution may not be made if 2 years or more have elapsed since the date on which the person was convicted of the relevant offence.

(3) The provisions of Division 8 relating to the recovery of money under an order for restitution and to the creation of charges on land under that Division apply to an order for restitution under this section.