Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00613:section:3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00613
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3
Character Range: 24296–25681

3  Objects of this Act
 (1) The main objects of this Act are:
 (a) to recognise and alleviate the impact of past institutional child sexual abuse and related abuse; and
 (b) to provide justice for the survivors of that abuse.
 (2) For the purposes of achieving those objects, the objects of this Act are also:
 (a) to establish the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse; and
 (b) to provide redress under the scheme which consists of:
 (i) a monetary payment to survivors as a tangible means of recognising the wrong survivors have suffered; and
 (ii) a counselling and psychological component which, depending on where the survivor lives, consists of access to counselling and psychological services or a monetary payment; and
 (iii) a direct personal response to survivors from the participating institutions and partly‑participating institutions responsible; and
 (c) to enable institutions responsible for abuse of survivors to participate in the scheme to provide that redress to those survivors; and
 (d) to implement the joint response of:
 (i) the Commonwealth Government; and
 (ii) the government of each participating State; and
 (iii) the government of each participating Territory;
  to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in relation to redress.

Division 3—Simplified outline of this Act