New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 7

7 Who is a primary victim?

(1) A "primary victim" of an act of violence is a person who receives a compensable injury, or dies, as a direct result of that act.

(2) A primary victim of an act of violence extends to a person who receives a compensable injury, or dies, as a direct result of:

(a) trying to prevent another person from committing that act, or

(b) trying to help or rescue another person against whom that act is being committed or has just been committed, or

(c) trying to arrest another person who is committing, or who has just committed, that act.