Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME RIGHTS AND SERVICES ACT - SECT 3

The objects of this Act are:

        (a)     to establish the Crime Victims Services Unit to promote the rights of victims, administer schemes for providing counselling and financial assistance to victims, establish and operate the Victims Register and assist victims generally; and

        (b)     to establish the Crime Victims Advisory Committee to advise the Minister about the interests and rights of victims and the services provided to victims; and

        (c)     to enable registered victims of violent criminal offences, and people concerned with particular criminal offences, to be given specified information relating to the offenders who committed the offences; and

        (d)     to enable the Minister to issue a Charter of Victims Rights for the protection and promotion of the rights of victims and issue guidelines to assist the administration of this Act.