CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION ACT 2003 - SECT 9

CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION ACT 2003 - SECT 9

9 .         Time limit for making compensation application

        (1)         A compensation application must be made within 3 years after the date on which —

            (a)         the offence to which it relates was committed; or

            (b)         if it relates to more than one offence, the last of them was committed.

        (2)         Despite subsection (1), an assessor may allow a compensation application to be made after the 3 years if he or she thinks it is just to do so and may do so on any conditions that he or she thinks it is just to impose.