VICTIMS OF CRIME ASSISTANCE ACT 1996 - SECT 70A Money held by Tribunal for person under disability

VICTIMS OF CRIME ASSISTANCE ACT 1996 - SECT 70A

    (1)     Unless the Tribunal orders otherwise, money held by the Tribunal on trust for a person under disability immediately before the commencement of section 9 of the Courts Legislation (Funds in Court) Act 2004 must be paid into the Supreme Court by payment to the Senior Master of the Supreme Court to be held in that Court on behalf of the person under disability.

    (2)     Unless the Tribunal orders otherwise, in any proceeding in the Tribunal in which an award of assistance is made for the benefit of a person under disability, that award must be made payable to the Senior Master of the Supreme Court and paid to the Senior Master and held in that Court on behalf of the person under disability.

    (3)     Money paid to the Senior Master under subsection (1) or (2) is to be held by the Senior Master as if an order had been made in a proceeding in the Supreme Court that the money be paid into court to be held on behalf of the person under disability and as if that money had been paid into court in accordance with that order.

S. 70A(4) amended by No. 13/2019 s. 221(Sch.  1 item 58.3).

    (4)     Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 70 of this Act or section 179 of the Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 .

S. 71 amended by No. 52/1997

s. 10 (ILA

s. 39B(1)).