Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person is eligible for redress under the scheme if:
(a) the person was sexually abused; and
(b) the sexual abuse is within the scope of the scheme (see section 14); and
(c) the sexual abuse is of a kind for which the maximum amount of redress payment that could be payable to the person (as worked out under the assessment framework) would be more than nil; and
(d) one or more of the following are responsible for the abuse (see section 15):
(i) a participating institution;
(ii) an institution that is listed for a participating jurisdiction under section 164A, 164B or 164C (if a participating jurisdiction is an eligible funding jurisdiction for the institution in relation to the abuse); and
(e) the person is an Australian citizen or a permanent resident (within the meaning of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 ) at the time the person applies for redress.
Note 1: To be eligible for redress, a person must have been sexually abused. However, redress is for the sexual abuse, and related non - sexual abuse, of the person that is within the scope of the scheme.
Note 2: For which institutions are participating institutions, see section 108.
(2) A person is also eligible for redress under the scheme if this Act or the rules prescribe that the person is eligible for it.
(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), a person is not eligible for redress under the scheme if this Act or the rules prescribe that the person is not eligible for it.