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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 60A

Worker not liable for medical, hospital and rehabilitation charges above applicable rates

60A Worker not liable for medical, hospital and rehabilitation charges above applicable rates

A worker is not liable to pay, and a person is not entitled to recover from a worker, any amount in respect of medical or related treatment, hospital treatment at a hospital or an occupational rehabilitation service, given or provided to the worker as a result of an injury, to the extent that the amount exceeds any applicable maximum, as follows:

(a) in the case of a medical or related treatment for which a sum is fixed under section 61 (2), the applicable maximum is that fixed sum,
(b) in the case of hospital treatment at a hospital, the applicable maximum is the amount calculated as fixed under section 62 (1) as the cost to the hospital of the treatment,
(c) in the case of an occupational rehabilitation service for which a sum is fixed under section 63A (2), the applicable maximum is that fixed sum.



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