Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Act 2016

This section applies if, immediately before 1 July 2016, a person was entitled to make an application in relation to a criminal injury under the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Act 1983 (repealed), section 27 (Application for financial assistance).

Note The Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Act 1983 was repealed, and this Act commenced, on 1 July 2016.

The person may apply for financial assistance under this Act as if the conduct that resulted in the criminal injury had occurred on or after 1 July 2016.

Note Time limits apply for making an application for financial assistance (see s 32).

However, subsection (2) does not apply if the person has received financial assistance in relation to the criminal injury under—

the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Act 1983 (repealed); or

this Act, in accordance with expired section 203.

Any right of the person to make an application, on or after the commencement day, for financial assistance in accordance with expired section 203 is extinguished.

Note Expired section 203 was a transitional provision that allowed applications that could have been made under the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Act 1983 to be made under this Act despite the former Act’s repeal.

Subsection (4) does not affect the person’s right to receive financial assistance under expired section 203 for an application made under that section, but not decided by the commissioner, before the commencement day.

In this section:

commencement day means the day the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 2024, section 15 commences.

expired section 203 means section 203, as in force immediately before 1 July 2021.