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Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
297Compensation for other person’s transportation costs
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297 Compensation for other person’s transportation costs
The Commonwealth is liable to pay compensation for any costs reasonably incurred by a person (the first person) if:
(a) the first person reasonably incurred those costs in connection with transporting another person to:
(i) a hospital or other institution; or
(ii) a mortuary;
from a place where that other person had sustained an injury, contracted a disease or died; and
(i) that injury, disease or death is a service injury, disease or death in respect of which the Commission has accepted liability; or
(ii) the other person is entitled to treatment under section 284 in respect of the injury or disease; and
(c) a claim for compensation in respect of the first person has been made under section 319.