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3  Definitions
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
advance payment means a payment made under section 33B.
amount of compensation, in relation to a judgment or settlement, is defined in subsection (2).
Australian law means a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
bulk payment agreement means an agreement of a kind referred to in subsection 34(1).
Charges Act means the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995.
Chief Executive Medicare has the same meaning as in the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973.
claim means a claim in writing.
claimant, in relation to compensation, means the person seeking compensation either on his or her own behalf or on behalf of another person.
compensable person means:
 (a) an individual who is entitled to receive or has received a compensation payment in respect of an injury; or
 (b) if the individual has died—the individual's estate.
compensation is defined in section 4.
compensation authority means a person appointed, or a body established, by or under Australian law, being a person or body whose functions include determining amounts of compensation payable to persons.
compensation payer means:
 (a) a person who is liable to make a payment of compensation fixed under a judgment or settlement; or
 (b) a person who is liable to make a payment of compensation under a reimbursement arrangement; or
 (c) an authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that has decided that it will make a payment by way of compensation to another person, whether or not the authority is liable to make the payment.
eligible benefit means:
 (a) a medicare benefit; or
 (b) a nursing home benefit; or
 (c) a residential care subsidy; or
 (d) a home care subsidy.
fixed, in relation to an order or agreement relating to an amount of compensation, is defined in subsection (4).
home care, in relation to a compensable person, has the same meaning as in:
 (a) if the Aged Care Act 1997 applies in relation to the person—that Act; and
 (b) if the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 applies in relation to the person—that Act.
home care subsidy has the same meaning as in:
 (a) in relation to home care under the Aged Care Act 1997—that Act; and
 (b) in relation to home care under the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997—that Act.
injury includes a disease.
insurer means a person who is, under a contract of insurance, liable to indemnify a compensation payer, or a person against whom a claim for compensation is made, against liability arising from a claim for compensation, and includes:
 (a) an authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that is liable to indemnify a compensation