Australian Capital Territory
Victims of Crime (Fees) Determination 2018 (No 1)
Disallowable instrument DI2018–186
made under the  
Victims of Crime Regulation 2000, s 50 (1) (Determination of fees for services provided by service providers)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This disallowable instrument determines payments made to service providers under the Victims of Crime Regulation 2000. 

Under section 50 of the Victims of Crime Regulation 2000, the Minister may, in writing, determine fees that are payable for service provided to an eligible victim under the regulation by a service provider.

Schedule 1 of the instrument lists the amounts that service providers are to be paid, in accordance with their professional qualifications and the nature of the service provided.  The payments which will apply from the date of commencement are listed in column 6. The payments which applied previously are listed in italic in column 3.

This instrument includes two fee increases, to be applied in totality on a single commencement date, recognising that a fee increase was not determined previously for 2017-18.  

The 2017-18 ACT Budget forecast a CPI of 2% for 2017-18. This index has been applied to the payments set in 2016–17 to calculate the increase that applied to the 2017–18 period.  The increased amount is set out in column 4.   

The 2018-19 ACT Budget has forecast a CPI of 2.25% for 2018-19.  This index has been applied to calculate the payments for the 2018-19 period. The increased amount for 2018-19 is set out in column 5. 

Fees have been generally increased based on aforementioned CPI rates and rounded down to the nearest dollar.

The payments in column 6 will commence from 1 July 2018.