New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Victim impact statements in sentencing of offender

• (1) The prosecutor must make all reasonable efforts to ensure that information is ascertained from the victim, for submission under section 21 to the judicial officer sentencing the offender, about the following matters:

  • (a) any physical injury or emotional harm suffered by the victim through, or by means of, the offence; and

  • (b) any loss of, or damage to, property suffered by the victim through, or by means of, the offence; and

  • (c) any other effects of the offence on the victim.

  (2) When a person is a victim because of paragraph (a)(iii) of the definition of that term in section 4, then a reference in subsection (1)(a) to (c) of this section to “the victim” includes a reference to the child or young person concerned.

  Compare: 1987 No 173 s 8(1)