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WORKPLACE INJURY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2013 (NO. 67 OF 2013) - SECT 224 Liability of Authority and self-insurer

WORKPLACE INJURY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2013 (NO. 67 OF 2013) - SECT 224

Liability of Authority and self-insurer

    (1)         If there is caused to a worker an injury which entitles a worker to compensation, the Authority or a self-insurer, and the employer in respect of the employer's excess under section 72(1)(c), is liable, unless a determination of the Authority or an order of the court under Division 6 of Part 13 applies, to pay as compensation, in addition to any other compensation payable under this Act—

        (a)     the reasonable costs of the road accident rescue services, medical, hospital, nursing, personal and household, occupational rehabilitation and ambulance services received because of the injury; and

        (b)     if the injury is a severe injury for which immediate inpatient treatment in a hospital is received or where death results from the injury, the reasonable costs incurred in Australia of family counselling services provided to family members by—

              (i)     a medical practitioner; or

              (ii)     a registered psychologist; or

              (iii)     a social worker approved by the Authority to provide counselling services for the purposes of this section

not exceeding $5870 in respect of that severe injury or death; and

        (c)     if death results from the injury, the reasonable costs of burial or cremation.

    (2)     The Authority may make guidelines identifying services, or services of a class of services, referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b) for which approval should be sought from the Authority or self-insurer before the services are provided.

    (3)     The Authority must ensure that guidelines made under subsection (2) are published and are generally available.

    (4)     A worker is entitled to receive a service referred to in subsection (1) (other than an occupational rehabilitation service) from the provider of the worker's choice notwithstanding that an employer or the Authority or a self-insurer, as the case may be, offers or provides a service to the worker for the worker's use.