New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978 - SECT 27

27 Certain funeral expenses payable

(1) Where a person dies as a consequence of an injury suffered in prescribed circumstances by the person, whether within or outside New South Wales, the Committee shall, on application made to it by:

(a) where the funeral expenses payable out of the deceased person’s estate have been paid, the person who paid those expenses, or

(b) where those expenses have not been paid, an applicant approved by the Committee, being:

(i) a parent of the deceased person,

(ii) a person who, in the opinion of the Committee, had a relationship to the deceased person, immediately before the death, substantially similar to that of a parent, or

(iii) the legal personal representative of the deceased person,

pay to the applicant the prescribed amount or those expenses, whichever is the lesser, if those expenses have been paid or, if those expenses have not been paid, pay to the applicant the prescribed amount.

(1A) An injury is suffered by a person in prescribed circumstances, within the meaning of subsection (1), if the injury is suffered by the person:

(a) while the person is participating in an authorised activity of a sporting organisation as a registered participant of the organisation,

(b) while the person is participating in an authorised activity of a school as an enrolled student participant of the school, or

(c) while the person is participating in an authorised activity of the Department as an enrolled participant of the Department.

(2) No amount is payable under subsection (1) in respect of the death of a person if any amount has previously been paid or is payable under section 26 to the legal personal representative of the person in respect of the death.

(3) In subsection (1), "prescribed amount" means $850 or, where another amount is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection, that other amount.