Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH ACT - SECT 73

73. Compensation for medical, surgical and rehabilitation treatment, &c.

Subject to this Part and the Regulations, where a worker sustains an injury, his or her employer is liable to pay the costs reasonably incurred by the worker as a result of that injury for -

(a) medical, surgical and rehabilitation treatment;

(b) hospitalization and hospital treatment;

(c) travelling, or being transported, to and from any place for the purpose of medical, surgical and rehabilitation treatment, hospitalization or hospital treatment;

(d) where it is necessary for him or her to be accommodated away from his or her normal place of residence for the purpose of medical, surgical and rehabilitation treatment - such accommodation; and

(e) attendance by a registered or enrolled nurse who has a right of practice under the Health Practitioners Act , or by some other person, where the disability is such that the worker must have nursing or personal attendance,

and such other costs as are prescribed.