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Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003
sec.224Liability for caring allowance
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### sec.224 Liability for caring allowance
This section applies if a worker is receiving weekly payments of compensation.
A caring allowance may be paid if the insurer is satisfied that—
the worker depends on day to day care for the fundamental activities of daily living; and
the care is to be provided to the worker at the worker’s home on a voluntary basis by another person in relation to whom compensation is not payable.
The insurer must ask that a registered occupational therapist assess the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements resulting from the injury in the way prescribed under a regulation.
The occupational therapist must give the insurer an assessment report stating—
the matters the therapist took into account, and the weight the therapist gave to the matters, in deciding the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements; and
any other information prescribed under a regulation.
In this section—
home , of the worker, means a private dwelling where the worker usually resides.
(sec.224-ssec.1) This section applies if a worker is receiving weekly payments of compensation.
(sec.224-ssec.2) A caring allowance may be paid if the insurer is satisfied that— the worker depends on day to day care for the fundamental activities of daily living; and the care is to be provided to the worker at the worker’s home on a voluntary basis by another person in relation to whom compensation is not payable.
(sec.224-ssec.3) The insurer must ask that a registered occupational therapist assess the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements resulting from the injury in the way prescribed under a regulation.
(sec.224-ssec.4) The occupational therapist must give the insurer an assessment report stating— the matters the therapist took into account, and the weight the therapist gave to the matters, in deciding the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements; and any other information prescribed under a regulation.
(sec.224-ssec.5) In this section— home , of the worker, means a private dwelling where the worker usually resides.
- (a) the worker depends on day to day care for the fundamental activities of daily living; and
- (b) the care is to be provided to the worker at the worker’s home on a voluntary basis by another person in relation to whom compensation is not payable.
- (a) the matters the therapist took into account, and the weight the therapist gave to the matters, in deciding the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements; and
- (b) any other information prescribed under a regulation.