National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018

The main objects of this Act are:

to recognise and alleviate the impact of past institutional child sexual abuse and related abuse; and

to provide justice for the survivors of that abuse.

For the purposes of achieving those objects, the objects of this Act are also:

to establish the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse; and

to provide redress under the scheme which consists of:

a monetary payment to survivors as a tangible means of recognising the wrong survivors have suffered; and

a counselling and psychological component which, depending on where the survivor lives, consists of access to counselling and psychological services or a monetary payment; and

a direct personal response to survivors from the participating institutions and partly‑participating institutions responsible; and

to enable institutions responsible for abuse of survivors to participate in the scheme to provide that redress to those survivors; and

to implement the joint response of:

the Commonwealth Government; and

the government of each participating State; and

the government of each participating Territory;