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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 72AB
Definitions
(1) In this Part--
"court proceedings" means proceedings before a court against a person charged
with a violent crime, including-- (a) committal proceedings, and
(b)
sentencing proceedings, and
(c) proceedings on appeal, and
(d) proceedings
on a back up offence or related offence (as defined in section 35 of the
Criminal Procedure Act 1986 ) in relation to the alleged violent crime, and
(e) any other proceedings prescribed by the regulations.
"harm" means actual physical bodily harm, mental illness or nervous shock.
"victim of crime" means a person-- (a) who suffers harm as a direct result of
an act committed, or apparently committed, by another person in the course of
an alleged violent crime, or
(b) who is the parent, grandparent or guardian
of a child who suffers such harm (but only if the child is under the age of 18
years at the time victims leave is taken), or
(c) who is a
member of the immediate family of a person who dies as a direct result of an
act committed, or apparently committed, by another person in the course of an
alleged violent crime.
"victims leave" means leave under this Part.
"violent crime" means a serious indictable offence involving violence
(including sexual assault or sexual touching). Note : The Interpretation Act
1987 defines a serious indictable offence as an indictable offence that is
punishable by imprisonment for life or for a term of 5 years or more.
(2) A
"member of the immediate family" of a person is-- (a) the person's spouse, or
(b) the person's de facto partner, or
(c) a parent or guardian, or
step-parent, of the person, or
(d) a grandparent or step-grandparent of the
person (a step-grandparent being a step-parent of a parent of the person), or
(e) a child or step-child of the person or some other child of whom the person
is the guardian, or
(f) a grandchild or step-grandchild of the person (a
step-grandchild being a step-child of a child of the person), or
(g) a
brother, sister, step-brother or step-sister of the person.
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