Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653:section:3:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 8228–10893

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 payer, or a person against whom a claim for compensation is made, against such liability, whether the authority is so liable under a contract, a law, or otherwise; or
 (b) an authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that decides to make a payment to indemnify a compensation payer, or a person against whom a claim for compensation is made, against such liability, whether or not the authority is liable to do so; or
 (c) a representative organisation, in relation to the claim for compensation, that decides to make a payment to indemnify a compensation payer, or a person against whom a claim for compensation is made, against such liability, whether or not the representative organisation is liable to do so.
judgment means an order (by whatever name called) by a court or a compensation authority under which an amount of compensation payable is fixed, but does not include a reimbursement arrangement, a consent judgment or an order in the nature of a consent judgment.
Note: Subsection (6) deals with the question of judgments that are subject to appeal.
law, in relation to the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, means a law (whether written or unwritten) of the Commonwealth, that State or that Territory, and includes a law (whether written or unwritten) in force in the Commonwealth, that State or that Territory or in any part of the Commonwealth, that State or that Territory.
medicare benefit has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.
notifiable person, in relation to a claim for compensation, means:
 (a) if the person against whom the claim is made has entered into a contract or arrangement with an insurer under which amounts of compensation that become payable as a result of the claim are to be paid by the insurer—the insurer; or
 (b) if paragraph (a) does not apply but the person against whom the claim is made is a member of a representative organisation that could, in performing its function of making payments in respect of amounts of compensation that its members are liable to pay, make a payment in respect of amounts of compensation that become payable as a result of the claim—the representative organisation; or
 (c) otherwise—the person against whom the claim is made.
nursing home benefit means an amount payable by the Commonwealth by way of benefit under Part VA of the National Health Act 1953, and includes a provisional payment made in accordance with