Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017
Amendment of section 5 of Criminal Justice Act 1993 | ||
31. The Act of 1993 is amended in section 5— | ||
(a) by the substitution of the following for subsection (1): | ||
“(1) This section applies to an offence where a natural person in respect of whom the offence has been committed, has suffered harm, including physical, mental or emotional harm, or economic loss, which was directly caused by that offence.”, | ||
and | ||
(b) in subsection (6)— | ||
(i) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “family member”: | ||
“ ‘family member’, in relation to a person in respect of whom an offence is committed, means— | ||
(a) a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the person, | ||
(b) a child or step-child of the person, | ||
(c) a parent or grandparent of the person, | ||
(d) a brother, sister, half brother or half sister of the person, | ||
(e) a grandchild of the person, | ||
(f) an aunt, uncle, nephew or niece of the person, and | ||
(g) any other person— | ||
(i) who is or, where the person is deceased, was dependent on the person, or | ||
(ii) who a court considers has or, where the person is deceased, had a sufficiently close connection with that person as to warrant his or her being treated as a family member;”, | ||
and | ||
(ii) by the insertion of the following definitions: | ||
“ ‘Act of 2010’ means the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ; | ||
‘civil partner’ means a person in a civil partnership or legal relationship to which section 3 of the Act of 2010 applies; | ||
‘cohabitant’ means a cohabitant within the meaning of section 172(1) of the Act of 2010;”. |