Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653:section:3:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 5/5)
Character Range: 15444–17436

on behalf of another person:
 (a) references in this Act to a claimant's name, address and date of birth are taken to be references to the name, address or date of birth of the individual who is claimed to have suffered the injury in question; and
 (b) references in this Act to the claimant's injury are taken to be references to the injury in question.
 (6) For the purposes of this Act (other than subsection 24(3)), an order is taken not to be a judgment until:
 (a) any applicable time limits for lodging an appeal (by whatever name called) against the order have expired; and
 (b) if there is such an appeal against the order—the appeal (and any subsequent appeals) have been finally disposed of.
 (7) For the purposes of this Act, if a person pays an amount into a court prior to a judgment or settlement being made, the payment does not constitute a payment of compensation until the amount is released, by the court or in accordance with the rules of the court, to another person.
 (8) For the avoidance of doubt, if:
 (a) a court or compensation authority makes an order fixing an amount of compensation that is payable in respect of a claim for compensation; and
 (b) the parties to the proceeding reached agreement on liability in respect of the injury to which the claim for compensation relates; and
 (c) the court or compensation authority determined the quantum of damages payable, and the quantum of each head of damage specified in the order, without the agreement of the parties on any such quantum;
the order is not a consent judgment, or an order in the nature of a consent judgment, for the purposes of this Act.
 (9) If an injury is a disease, a reference in this Act to the day on which the injury occurs is a reference to the first day on which a professional service was rendered in respect of the disease.
 (10) A reference in this Act to the period of a bulk payment agreement is a reference to the period to which the bulk payment agreement is expressed to apply.