Western Australian Current Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT 1994 - SECT 2

2 .         Terms used

                In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        guidelines means the guidelines in Schedule 1;

        offence includes an alleged offence;

        public officers and bodies includes —

            (a)         Ministers of the Crown; and

            (b)         judges, magistrates and other judicial officers; and

            (c)         officers of courts; and

            (d)         the Director of Public Prosecutions and other people who are involved in the prosecution of offences; and

            (e)         the Commissioner of Police and members of the Police Force; and

            (f)         the Prisoners Review Board; and

            (fa)         the Mental Impairment Review Tribunal; and

            (g)         the Supervised Release Review Board; and

            (h)         juvenile justice teams; and

                  (i)         employees or bodies in the public sector whose functions involve dealing with offenders or victims;

        victim means —

            (a)         a person who has suffered injury, loss or damage as a direct result of an offence, whether or not that injury, loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable by the offender; or

            (b)         where an offence results in a death, any member of the immediate family of the deceased.

        [Section 2 amended: No. 41 of 2006 s. 97; No. 10 of 2023 s. 411.]