Part 7 Counselling Services Benefits

1.   Counselling services benefits

(1) If –

(a) a person suffers personal injury resulting directly from a motor accident that occurs on or after 1 December 2007 and requires daily care, or has died, as a result of the personal injury; and

(b) because of that injury or death, a family member of that person requires counselling services –

the expenses reasonably incurred by, or on behalf of, that family member for those counselling services are payable as counselling services benefits.

(2) The maximum amount payable under subclause (1) of this Part in respect of a motor accident is –

(a) if the accident occurred before 17 February 2020, $1 000 for each family member; or

(b) [Part 7 of Schedule 1 Amended by No. 17 of 1996, Applied:17 Feb 2020] if the accident occurred on or after 17 February 2020, $1 270 for each family member.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, a benefit paid under Part 7 of Schedule 1 to the Motor Accidents (Liabilities and Compensation) Regulations 2010 in respect of a motor accident is taken to be a benefit paid under this clause in respect of that accident.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 5 February 2020

These regulations are administered in the Department of State Growth.