Meaning of victim
5 Meaning of victim
A victim is a person who has suffered harm—
because a crime is committed against the person; or
because the person is a family member or dependant of a person who has died or suffered harm because a crime is committed against that person; or
as a direct result of intervening to help a person who has died or suffered harm because a crime is committed against that person.
Subsection (3) applies if a victim mentioned in subsection (1)(a) is pregnant when the crime is committed and, as a result of the commission of the crime—
the person sustains a bodily injury that results in the destruction of the life of the person’s unborn child; or
the person dies, resulting in the destruction of the life of the person’s unborn child.
A victim includes a person who has suffered harm because the person would, if the unborn child had been born alive, have been a family member of the child.
A person who commits a crime against a person as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) is not a victim of the crime under subsection (1)(b) or (c) or (3).
A victim includes a person, other than a person mentioned in subsection (1) or (3), who has suffered harm—
because domestic violence is committed against the person; or
because the person is a family member or dependant of a person mentioned in paragraph (a); or
as a direct result of intervening to help a person mentioned in paragraph (a).
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