8Amount of payments

8 Amount of payments

8 Amount of payments

(1) For the purposes of section 33 of the Act, the amount of the payment to be made or reimbursed for approved counselling services provided to a victim who is resident in Australia is the sum of the following—

(a) the amount calculated in accordance with the scale set out in the Table to this clause in respect of the relevant class of counsellor providing the service,

(b) the amount of GST that is payable in respect of the provision of the approved counselling service,

(c) the amount, determined by the Commissioner, to be appropriate to cover costs incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the approved counselling service.

(2) Any period of more than 2 hours during which a counsellor travels to provide approved counselling services to a victim is to be counted in calculating the amount of payment to be made or reimbursed for each hour of approved counselling services provided to that victim under this clause.

(3) Subclause (1)(b) does not permit the approval of an amount that is greater than 10% of the amount of the costs referred to in subclause (1)(a).

(4) A reference in this clause to the provision of approved counselling services to a victim includes, in the case where approved counselling services are provided to a group of victims under an approved program, a reference to the provision of the services to that group.

(5) In this clause—

GST has the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth.

Table

| 1 | Generalist counsellors tier 1 | $120 per hour | | 2 | Generalist counsellors tier 2 | $144 per hour | | 3 | Psychiatrists | $256 per hour |