New Zealand Acts

VICTIMS' RIGHTS ACT 2002 - SECT 11

11 Information about programmes, remedies, and services

1 A victim must, as soon as practicable after the victim comes into contact with an agency, be given information by the personnel of the agency about programmes, remedies, or services available to the victim through the agency.

2 In this section,—  
"agency" means—  

a) the Accident Compensation Corporation:

b) Health New Zealand (as defined in section 4 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 ):

c) the Department of Corrections:

d) the Ministry of Justice:

e) the Ministry of Social Development:

f) the New Zealand Police

"services" includes participation in restorative justice processes.

3 Nothing in this section prevents information of a kind that, under this section, must be given to a victim of an offence, from also being given to any other person (for example, to a person who was disadvantaged by the offence).

History: Section 11(2): replaced, on 6 December 2014, by section 7 of the Victims’ Rights Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 35).   Section 11(2) agency paragraph (b): replaced, on 1 July 2022, by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).