Bill
Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-10-26
- second reading — 2017-10-26
- other — 2019-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-10-26.
This bill is part of a package that creates a federal compensation program for people sexually abused as children in institutional settings run by the Commonwealth, a territory, or a non-government body that opts in.
The program would offer up to $150,000, counselling, and a personal apology from the responsible institution, and would run from 1 July 2018 for 10 years.
A person would be eligible if the abuse occurred before 1 July 2018, and a review of the program would start no earlier than the eighth year after the cut-off date and no sooner than two years after the program begins.
- Establishes the Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
- Sets the maximum monetary payment at $150,000.
- Requires survivors to release participating institutions from liability if they accept an offer.
- Ensures redress payments are not counted as income for social security or veterans' entitlements.
- Quarantines payments from bankruptcy proceedings.
- Exempts Scheme decisions from judicial review under the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977.
Survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, Commonwealth institutions, Territory and non-government institutions that opt in, and agencies administering social security, veterans' entitlements, and bankruptcy laws.
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