Victims of Crime Assistance Act 2009

This section applies if the person also has a repealed legislation application for injury suffered because of 1 or more personal offences in the series of related offences.

The government assessor must—

defer deciding an application mentioned in section 170(1)(c) until the repealed legislation application is decided; and

if the repealed legislation application is granted—reduce the amount of victim assistance that would otherwise be payable to the person in relation to the single act of violence by an amount of up to the amount the person will receive, or is likely to receive, as a result of the repealed legislation application being granted.

In this section—

repealed legislation application, for an injury suffered because of a personal offence, means an application for the payment of compensation, or the payment of an amount, for the injury—

that—

was made under the repealed legislation before the commencement; and

to which section 167 or 169 applies; or

that was made under the repealed legislation after the commencement under section 155 or 177.