The FAS can treat multiple individual incidents as a violent act where there is some common feature between them. These are known as related acts.[17] This allows the FAS to consider the criminal acts together to avoid an applicant applying multiple times for different incidents.
In these cases, the FAS must still be satisfied that each incident occurred in Victoria and is a relevant offence.
In these guidelines, a reference to a violent act also includes related acts unless explained otherwise.
Footnotes
[17] See definition of ‘related acts’ at section 4(1) of the Act.
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