Criminal Injuries Compensation (Amendment) Act 1986 (ACT)

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Criminal Injuries Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1986

No. 28 of 1986

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 24 July 1986.

J. A. ROWLAND

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Attorney-General

An Ordinance to amend the Criminal Injuries Compensation Ordinance 1983

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Injuries Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.¹

Maximum amount of compensation

2.  (1)  Section 7 of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Ordinance 1983² is amended by adding at the end the following sub-section:

“(2) Where a person sustains 2 or more prescribed injuries—

(a)at approximately the same time;

(b)as a result of the criminal conduct of each of 2 or more persons acting together; or

(c)otherwise arising out of the same circumstances,

those injuries shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken to be the one prescribed injury.”.

(2)  The amendment effected by sub-section (1) applies in relation to awards of compensation made on or after the date of commencement of this Ordinance.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 July 1986.

2. No. 11, 1983.