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Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003
sec.232ZIEngagement of NIIS (Qld) agency to perform functions and exercise powers
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### sec.232ZI Engagement of NIIS (Qld) agency to perform functions and exercise powers
An insurer may, by way of an agreement under the NIIS (Qld) Act , section 60 , engage the NIIS (Qld) agency to perform the insurer’s functions or exercise the insurer’s powers under this chapter, including, for example—
assessing and deciding a worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments; and
preparing support plans; and
deciding service requests under section 232P ; and
entering into funding agreements under section 232Q ; and
deciding payment requests under section 232R .
To remove any doubt, it is declared that an insurer who engages the NIIS (Qld) agency to perform functions or exercise powers under subsection (1) remains liable to make payments to workers under this chapter.
The Regulator may impose a condition on a self-insurer’s licence that the self-insurer engage the NIIS (Qld) agency under subsection (1) for all of the self-insurer’s functions and powers under this chapter or for stated functions and powers.
The Regulator may monitor the performance of functions or the exercise of powers by the NIIS (Qld) agency under an engagement under subsection (1) .
In this section—
NIIS (Qld) Act means the National Injury Insurance Scheme (Queensland) Act 2016 .
NIIS (Qld) agency means the agency under the NIIS (Qld) Act .
s 232ZI ins 2016 No. 44 s 30
(sec.232ZI-ssec.1) An insurer may, by way of an agreement under the NIIS (Qld) Act , section 60 , engage the NIIS (Qld) agency to perform the insurer’s functions or exercise the insurer’s powers under this chapter, including, for example— assessing and deciding a worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments; and preparing support plans; and deciding service requests under section 232P ; and entering into funding agreements under section 232Q ; and deciding payment requests under section 232R .
(sec.232ZI-ssec.2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that an insurer who engages the NIIS (Qld) agency to perform functions or exercise powers under subsection (1) remains liable to make payments to workers under this chapter.
(sec.232ZI-ssec.3) The Regulator may impose a condition on a self-insurer’s licence that the self-insurer engage the NIIS (Qld) agency under subsection (1) for all of the self-insurer’s functions and powers under this chapter or for stated functions and powers.
(sec.232ZI-ssec.4) The Regulator may monitor the performance of functions or the exercise of powers by the NIIS (Qld) agency under an engagement under subsection (1) .
(sec.232ZI-ssec.5) In this section— NIIS (Qld) Act means the National Injury Insurance Scheme (Queensland) Act 2016 . NIIS (Qld) agency means the agency under the NIIS (Qld) Act .
- (a) assessing and deciding a worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments; and
- (b) preparing support plans; and
- (c) deciding service requests under section 232P ; and
- (d) entering into funding agreements under section 232Q ; and
- (e) deciding payment requests under section 232R .