Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Transport Accident Act 1986 - SECT 61A

Individual funding agreements

61A. Individual funding agreements



(1) This section applies if-

   (a)  a person has a severe injury as a result of a transport accident; and

   (b)  the person is entitled to receive compensation under this Act for
        approved services.

(2) The Commission may enter into an agreement with the person under which
provision is made for the payment of the compensation to the person by way of
periodic payments that represent a reasonable estimate of the person's likely
costs or expenditure in the relevant period in relation to the approved
services covered by the agreement.

(3) The purpose of the agreement is to promote the person's autonomy in
acquiring approved services.





(4) For the purposes of this section, approved services are any of the
following services for which the Commission is liable to pay compensation
under section 60, and any equivalent services for which the Commission is
liable to pay compensation under section 145-

   (a)  medical services other than-

   (i)  attendance, examination or treatment of any kind by a medical
        practitioner or a registered dentist; and
(ii) any medical service described in paragraphs (c) to (h) of the definition
of "medical service" in section 3(1);

   (b)  nursing services, disability services authorised under section 23,
        child care services, home services and post acute support services;

   (c)  transportation costs;

   (d)  ambulance services for the purposes of travelling to or from a
        medical service to which paragraph (a) applies;

   (e)  rehabilitation services authorised under section 23, other than the
        provision of any aid, appliance or apparatus for the purpose of
        rehabilitation that is more than $200 or any other amount specified by
        the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.