847
CurrentDefinition of victim
Chapter 19Transitional provisions and consequential amendments relating to minimum age of criminal responsibility
Part 19.17Amendment of Victims' Charter Act
847 Definition of victim
In section 3(1) of the Victims' Charter Act 2006, in the definition of victim—
(a)
after paragraph (a) insert—
"(ab) a natural person who has suffered injury as a direct result of conduct, whether or not that injury was reasonably foreseeable by the person who engaged in the conduct, if the conduct—
(i)
was engaged in by a child who was under 14 years of age at the time of engaging in the conduct; and
(ii)
if engaged in by a person who is 14 years of age or over, would constitute a criminal offence; or
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