Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00116:section:28:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00116
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 28 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 59324–61935

(a) in relation to a journey by means of public transport or ambulance services—an amount equal to the expenditure reasonably incurred in undertaking that journey; or
 (b) in relation to a journey by means of private motor vehicle—an amount worked out using the formula:

where:
Specified rate per kilometre means such rate per kilometre as the Minister specifies, by legislative instrument, under this paragraph in respect of journeys to which this paragraph applies.
Number of kilometres travelled 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).
 (6AA) 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.
 (6B) The amount of compensation that the employer is liable to pay in respect of the employee remaining at a place for the purpose of obtaining the treatment is an amount equal to the expenditure so reasonably incurred in remaining for that purpose.
 (7) Compensation is not payable under subsection (6) unless:
 (a) in relation to a journey to which paragraph (6A)(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 (6A)(b) applies—the reasonable length of such a journey exceeded 50 kilometres.
 (8) The matters to be taken into account in deciding questions arising under subsections (6), (6A), (6AA), (6B) and (7) include:
 (a) the place or places where appropriate medical treatment was available to the employee; and
 (b) the means of transport available to the employee for the journey; and
 (c) the route or routes by which the employee could have travelled; and
 (d) the accommodation available to the employee.
 (9) If:
 (a) an employee suffers an injury; and
 (b) a person has reasonably incurred expenditure in connection with the transportation of the employee, or, if the employee has died, of the employee's body, from the place where the injury was sustained to a hospital or similar place, or to a mortuary; and
 (c) an employee, or the legal personal representative of the employee, does not make a claim for compensation for that expenditure;
compensation of an amount equal to that expenditure is payable to the person who incurred the expenditure.

Division 2—Injuries resulting in death