New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENTS (LIFETIME CARE AND SUPPORT) ACT 2006 - SECT 6

6 Scheme participants’ treatment and care needs to be paid for by Authority

(1) The Authority is to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by or on behalf of a person while a participant in the Scheme in providing for such of the treatment and care needs of the participant as relate to the motor accident injury in respect of which the person is a participant and as are reasonable and necessary in the circumstances.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, the "treatment and care needs" of a participant are the participant’s needs for or in connection with any of the following:

(a) medical treatment (including pharmaceuticals),

(b) dental treatment,

(c) rehabilitation,

(d) ambulance transportation,

(e) respite care,

(f) attendant care services,

(g) domestic assistance,

(h) aids and appliances,

(i) artificial members, eyes and teeth,

(j) education and vocational training,

(k) home and transport modification,

(l) workplace and educational facility modifications,

(m) such other kinds of treatment, care, support or services as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) As an alternative to paying the expenses for which it is liable under this section as and when they are incurred, the Authority may pay those expenses by the payment to the participant of an amount to cover those expenses over a fixed period pursuant to an agreement between the Authority and the participant for the payment of those expenses by the participant.

(4) The LTCS Guidelines may make provision for or with respect to determining which treatment and care needs of a participant in the Scheme are reasonable and necessary in the circumstances.