246Definitions

246 Definitions

authorised purpose means, in relation to the disclosure or use of vehicle accident information relating to a vehicle accident, any one or more of the following purposes—

(a) to obtain legal advice in relation to the vehicle accident; or

(b) to recover any loss or damage incurred or suffered, or costs incurred, as a result of the vehicle accident, whether by way of legal proceedings or otherwise; or

(c) to assess and determine a claim under a contract of insurance made in relation to—

(i) the death or injury of a person as a result of the vehicle accident; or

(ii) the damage to, or destruction of, property as a result of the vehicle accident; or

(d) to assess and determine a claim for compensation under a statutory insurance scheme law in respect of the death of or injury to a person as a result of the vehicle accident; or

(e) to investigate the vehicle accident for a purpose set out in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d);

authorised representative means—

(a) a relevant insurer; or

(b) a person authorised, in writing, by a person referred to in section 248(1)(a) to (c) to request vehicle accident information on that person's behalf in accordance with that section;

injury means personal or bodily injury and includes psychological or psychiatric injury;

non-Victorian statutory insurance scheme law means a law of another State or a Territory or the Commonwealth declared under section 247 to be a non-Victorian statutory insurance scheme law;

S. 246 def. of personal representative amended by No. 13/2019 s. 221(Sch. 1 item 59.1).

personal representative, in relation to a person who dies or is injured, or whose property has been damaged or destroyed, as a result of a vehicle accident, means—

(a) if the person is a child, the parent or guardian of the child; or

(b) if the person is a person with a disability and an administrator or guardian has been appointed under the Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 in respect of that person, that administrator or guardian; or

(c) if the person does not have legal capacity and the person has appointed an attorney under an enduring power of attorney, that attorney; or

(d) if the person dies as a result of the vehicle accident, the administrator or executor of that person's estate;