4Definitions

4 Definitions

4 Definitions

In this Part—

generalist counsellor tier 1 means a person who is approved by the Commissioner under section 31 of the Act and is not a generalist counsellor tier 2.

generalist counsellor tier 2 means a person who—

(a) is a registered psychologist or is eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (other than as a student member), and

(b) has provided (whether before or after this definition was inserted by the Victims Rights and Support Amendment (Statutory Review) Act 2018) approved counselling services under the Act for more than 3 consecutive years, and

(c) holds post-graduate qualifications consisting of a Masters degree (or a higher level qualification) in social work, clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, counselling psychology or forensic psychology, and

(d) has, in the opinion of the Commissioner, specialist counselling skills that justify the person being paid at the rate applicable to a generalist counsellor tier 2.

relevant family member means—

(a) a person who is a relative of a primary victim who has died as a result of an act of violence but who is not a family victim, or

(b) a person who is a relative of a person killed in a road crime but is not a family victim.

victim means—

(a) a family victim, or

(b) a primary victim or a secondary victim, or

(c) a relevant family member,

but does not include a person who is the victim of an act of violence or act of modern slavery—

(d) arising in the circumstances described in section 25(2) of the Act, unless the person is a family victim of the act and the act apparently occurred in the course of the commission of the offence of murder or manslaughter, or

(e) arising in the circumstances described in section 25(3) or (4) of the Act.

cl 4: Am 2023 (260), sec 3(1); 2024 No 92, Sch 2[1].