91Proceedings for work injury damages involving party under legal incapacity

91 Proceedings for work injury damages involving party under legal incapacity

91 Proceedings for work injury damages involving party under legal incapacity

(1) If a party to proceedings for work injury damages is a person under legal incapacity, the provisions of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 relating to person under legal incapacity apply to the proceedings as though the proceedings were proceedings in the District Court.

(2) In this rule—

person under legal incapacity includes—

(a) a child under the age of 18 years,

(b) an involuntary patient or forensic patient within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2007,

(c) a person under guardianship within the meaning of the Guardianship Act 1987,

(d) a protected person within the meaning of the NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009,

(e) an incommunicate person, being a person with a physical or mental disability making the person unable to receive communications, or express the person’s will, with respect to the person’s property or affairs.