VICTIMS OF CRIME ASSISTANCE ACT 2009 - SECT 7 Victims charter does not give legal rights or affect legal rights or obligations

VICTIMS OF CRIME ASSISTANCE ACT 2009 - SECT 7

7 Victims charter does not give legal rights or affect legal rights or obligations

(1) The rights stated in the victims charter—

(a) are not enforceable by criminal or civil redress; and

(b) do not affect the validity, or give grounds for review, of anything done or not done, or a decision made or not made, in contravention of them; and

(c) do not affect the operation of any other law, including, for example—

(i) the Criminal Practice Rules 1999 and the rules of evidence in criminal proceedings; and

(ii) the Criminal Code , chapter 62 , chapter division 3 ; and

(d) do not affect confidentiality obligations applying to a prescribed person.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent disciplinary action being taken against a prescribed person who contravenes processes for implementing the rights stated in the victims charter that have been adopted by the government entity or non-government entity responsible for the prescribed person’s conduct.

(3) In this section—


"confidentiality obligation" means an obligation to maintain confidentiality about particular information under an Act, oath, or rule of law or practice.


"criminal or civil redress" means a proceeding for the enforcement of a right or obligation, whether the right or obligation is substantive or procedural, direct or indirect.