Victims of Crime

In reply to the Hon. L.A. HENDERSON ().15 May 2024).

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector): I am advised:

Victims are not required to 'repay' victims of crime compensation. From time to time, victims who receive victims of crime compensation later take civil action against the state. Any further compensation settlement accounts for any previous compensation the victims have received in relation to that same injury or loss.

In the past two years, four recipients of victims of crime compensation resolved civil actions against the state and, as part of that process, their civil action settlement expressly accounted for the victims of crime compensation they had already received for the same injury or loss.

This is to prevent double compensation being paid as is intended by section 29 of the Victims of Crime Act 2001.