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Chairperson's Report 1999-2000 7. Year 2000 Amendments to the Act The Victims Services website has moved. Please select this link to access the new site, or wait to be re-directed in 5 seconds.
That provision commenced in respect of applications lodged on and after 31 May 2000. The Bill also made provision for a proclamation increasing the threshold from $2,400 and that increase to $7,500 came about on 14 July 2000. Section 21 was amended to provide for counselling: (a) to relatives of a primary victim who died as a result of an act of violence but who is not a family victim within the meaning of the Act; and (b) to primary victims of an act of violence who did not suffer a compensable injury. Section 30 provides that failure to mitigate must be taken into account in determining a claim for statutory compensation. |
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