No award if injury is from motor vehicle in certain cases
37 No award if injury is from motor vehicle in certain cases
In this section —
motor vehicle has the meaning given by the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943.
This section applies in relation to an offence committed on or after 1 July 1993.
An assessor must not make a compensation award in favour of —
an injured victim in respect of the injury or any loss suffered by the victim; or
the personal representative of a deceased victim, in respect of any loss suffered by a close relative of a deceased victim,
as a consequence of the commission of an offence if satisfied that the injury or death was caused directly by, or by the driving or other use of, a motor vehicle unless —
the motor vehicle was used for the purpose of committing the offence; and
the offence is a crime.
[Section 37 amended: No. 29 of 2004 s. 6.]
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