120Travelling expenses

120 Travelling expenses

(1)  The Commissioner is to pay the lesser of –

(a) the reasonable expenses necessarily incurred by a compensable person, after the commencement day, for travelling and maintenance in connection with all or any of the following purposes:

(i) to undergo any examination or test the compensable person is required to undergo by a medical professional, the Commissioner or the Tribunal;

(ii) to obtain the medical services, hospital services or rehabilitation services that the compensable person is entitled to have paid by the Commissioner under this Act; or

(b) the amount, if any, prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.

(2)  In addition to paying the reasonable expenses incurred by a compensable person under subsection (1) , if subsection (3) applies the Commissioner is liable to pay the reasonable expenses necessarily incurred by a person who attends the compensable person while the compensable person is travelling in connection with a purpose to which subsection (1) applies.

(3)  This subsection applies in relation to a person attending a compensable person if a medical practitioner certifies, in writing, that it is necessary in the circumstances that the compensable person be accompanied by some other person while the compensable person is travelling for a purpose specified in subsection (1) .

(4)  If the reasonable expenses necessarily incurred –

(a) by a person for travelling and maintenance in connection with all or any of the purposes specified in subsection (1) ; or

(b) by a person who attends a person who has a compensable disease while the person who has a compensable disease is travelling in connection with such a purpose –

involve the use of a private motor vehicle, the amount payable under subsection (2) for the use of that motor vehicle is to be calculated at the State Service rate.

(5)  For the purposes of subsection (4) , the State Service rate is the rate payable to an occasional user of a private motor vehicle under the Tasmanian State Service Award or any industrial award, agreement or determination that replaces that award.