Victims’ Commissioner and Sexual Violence Review Board Act 2024

The rights stated in the victims charter—

are not enforceable by any proceeding for the enforcement of a right or obligation, regardless of whether the right or obligation is—

substantive or procedural; or

direct or indirect; and

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

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

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

the Criminal Code, chapter 62, chapter division 3; and

do not affect an obligation applying to a prescribed person to maintain confidentiality about particular information under any Act or law.

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.