61AIndividual funding agreements

61A Individual funding agreements (a) a person has a severe injury as a result of a transport accident; and (b) the person is entitled to receive compensation under this Act for approved services. (2) The Commission may enter into an agreement with the person under which provision is made for the payment of the compensation to the person by way of periodic payments that represent a reasonable estimate of the person's likely costs or expenditure in the relevant period in relation to the approved services covered by the agreement. (3) The purpose of the agreement is to promote the person's autonomy in acquiring approved services. (4) For the purposes of this section, ***approved services*** are any of the following services for which the Commission is liable to pay compensation under section 60, and any equivalent services for which the Commission is liable to pay compensation under section 145— (a) medical services other than— (i) attendance, examination or treatment of any kind by a medical practitioner or a registered dentist; and (ii) any medical service described in paragraphs (c) to (h) of the definition of "medical service" in section 3(1); (b) nursing services, disability services authorised under section 23, child care services, home services and post acute support services; (c) transportation costs; (d) ambulance services for the purposes of travelling to or from a medical service to which paragraph (a) applies; S. 61A(4)(e) amended by No. 71/2013 s. 23. (e) rehabilitation services authorised under section 23, other than the provision of any aid, appliance or apparatus for the purpose of rehabilitation that is more than $1000 or any other amount fixed by the Governor in Council by Order published in the Government Gazette for the purposes of this paragraph. S. 61B inserted by No. 94/2004 s. 26.