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South Australia
Victims of Crime (Compensation Limits) Amendment
Bill 2011
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Victims
of Crime Act 2001.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Victims of Crime
Act 2001
3Amendment of section 17—Eligibility to
make claim
4Amendment of section
20—Orders for compensation
5Substitution of section
34
34Application of
Act
6Amendment of Schedule 1—Repeal and
transitional provisions
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Victims of Crime (Compensation Limits)
Amendment Act 2011.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Victims of Crime
Act 2001
3—Amendment
of section 17—Eligibility to make claim
Section 17(5)—after paragraph (e) insert:
and
(f) a person is not entitled to statutory compensation if the person has
received compensation for the same harm under the repealed Criminal
Injuries Compensation Act 1978 (or under an Act repealed by that
Act).
4—Amendment
of section 20—Orders for compensation
(1) Section 20(1)(c)—after "$10 000" insert:
(indexed)
(2) Section 20(1)(d)(ii)—after "$7 000" insert:
(indexed)
(3) Section 20(3)(a)(i)—after "$20 000" wherever occurring
insert:
(indexed)
(4) Section 20(3)(a)(ii)—after "$1 000" insert:
(indexed)
(5) Section 20(3)—delete "$50 000" wherever occurring and
substitute in each case:
$100 000 (indexed)
(6) Section 20(3)(b)—after "$10 000" insert:
(indexed)
(7) Section 20—after subsection (11) insert:
(12) In this section, if a monetary amount is followed by the word
"(indexed)", the amount is to be adjusted on 1 January of each year,
beginning in 2013, by multiplying the stated amount by a multiplier
obtained by dividing the CPI for the quarter ending 30 June in the previous
year by the CPI for the quarter ending 30 June 2011.
(13) In this section—
CPI means the Consumer Price Index (All groups index for
Adelaide).
Section 34—delete the section and substitute:
34—Application of Act
(1) This Act applies in relation to a crime, or alleged crime, whether
committed, or allegedly committed, before or after the commencement of this
Act.
(2) An application for statutory compensation is to be determined in
accordance with the provisions of this Act as in force at the time of the
application.
6—Amendment
of Schedule 1—Repeal and transitional provisions
Schedule 1—delete clauses 1 and 2