Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00175:section:16:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00175
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 16 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 92075–94071

by legislative instrument, under this subsection in respect of journeys to which this subsection applies.
  numbers of kilometres travelled means the number of whole kilometres Comcare determines to have been the reasonable length of such a journey as it was necessary for the employee to make (including the return part of the journey).
 (d) in respect of the employee remaining for the purpose of obtaining the treatment—of an amount equal to the expenditure so reasonably incurred in remaining for that purpose.
 (7) Comcare is not liable to pay compensation under subsection (6) unless:
 (a) the reasonable length of such a journey as it was necessary for the employee to make (including the return part of the journey) exceeded 50 kilometres; or
 (b) if the journey made by the employee involved the use of public transport or ambulance services—the employee's injury reasonably required the use of such transport or services regardless of the distance involved.
 (8) The matters to which Comcare shall have regard in deciding questions arising under subsections (6) and (7) include:
 (a) the place or places where appropriate medical treatment was available to the employee;
 (b) the means of transport available to the employee for the journey;
 (c) the route or routes by which the employee could have travelled; and
 (d) the accommodation available to the employee.
 (9) Where:
 (a) an employee suffers an injury;
 (b) a person has reasonably incurred expenditure in connection with the transportation of the employee, or, if the employee has died, of his or her body, from the place where the injury was sustained to a hospital or similar place, or to a mortuary; and
 (c) the employee, or the legal personal representative of the employee, does not make a claim for compensation in respect of that expenditure;
Comcare is liable to pay compensation to the person who incurred the expenditure of an amount equal to the amount of that expenditure.

Division 2—Injuries resulting in death