Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00116:section:49:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00116
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 49 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 103327–105203

means the number of whole kilometres that the employer determines to have been the reasonable length of such a journey (including the return part of the journey).
 (6BA) If the place where the employee is residing is not the place where the employee normally resides, the amount payable in respect of the journey is not to exceed the amount that would be payable if the journey were made from the place where the employee normally resides.
 (6C) The amount of compensation that the employer is liable to pay in respect of the employee remaining at a place for the purpose of undergoing the examination is an amount equal to the expenditure so reasonably incurred in remaining for that purpose.
 (6D) Compensation is not payable under subsection (6A) unless:
 (a) in relation to a journey to which paragraph (6B)(a) applies—the employee's injury reasonably required the use of public transport or ambulance services (as the case may be) regardless of the distance involved; or
 (b) in relation to a journey to which paragraph (6B)(b) applies—the reasonable length of such a journey exceeded 50 kilometres.
 (7) In deciding questions arising under subsections (6A), (6B), (6BA), (6C) and (6D), the employer must have regard to the following matters:
 (a) the means of transport available to the employee for the journey;
 (b) the route or routes by which the employee could have travelled;
 (c) the accommodation available to the employee.
 (8) If an examination is carried out, the person or persons who carried out the examination must give the employer a written assessment of the employee's capability of undertaking a rehabilitation program, specifying, where appropriate, the kind of program which he or she is capable of undertaking and containing any other information relating to the provision of a rehabilitation program for the employee that the employer may require.