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Against this background, the Governor established a Working Party in March 1972, with the following terms of reference:
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"The Working Party shall be known as the Working Party on Compensation for Victims of Crimes of Violence.
2 Its terms of reference are to examine the existing arrangements for compensating a person (and the depen- dants of a person) who is killed or injured as a direct or indirect result of violence used during the course of, or in connection with, the commission of a crime and to make recommendations for the extension or improvement of these arrangements.
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In so doing the Working Party should consider, in particular whether compensation should be paid by the Government, by the offender or otherwise, to a person (and the dependants of a person) who is killed or injured
(1)
while assisting the police in the prevention of crime or the arrest of an offender;
(2)
while attempting to prevent the commission of a crime;..
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(3)
by a police officer acting in the execution of his duty.".
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A copy of the Report of the Working Party is annexed. The recommendations of the Working Party may be summarised briefly as follows:
(a)
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A scheme to compensate victims of crimes of violence fidor. or their dependants should be instituted and payments la mort under the scheme should be ex-gratia and made from the public funds.
The scheme should be administered by a Board (with some unofficial representation) which should assess eligibility for compensation on the same basis as does the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in Great Britain.
(c) The Board should be non-statutory and not be em-
powered to recover from an offender compensation paid to a victim.
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The amount of compensation payable should be. assessed on a fixed scale, similar to that recom
mended for use by the Community Relief Trust Fund for victims of natural disasters.
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