New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 51

51 Provisions relating to orders for restitution

(1) The Tribunal may, when it confirms a provisional order, reduce the amount to be paid under the provisional order having regard to:

(a) the financial means of the defendant, and

(b) such other matters as are, in the opinion of the Tribunal, relevant to the determination.

(2) The maximum amount that may be ordered to be paid under an order for restitution (whether made against one or more defendants) is the amount that has been paid to the victim under the award of statutory compensation to which the order relates.

(3) If an order for restitution is made against two or more defendants in respect of the same award of statutory compensation, each of the defendants is jointly and severally liable under the order.

(4) If the Tribunal decides under subsection (1) to reduce the amount payable by a defendant under an order made against two or more defendants, the Tribunal may confirm the order subject to the liability of the defendant concerned being limited under the order to an amount specified in the order.