Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00175:section:29:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00175
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 29 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 131810–133252

nursing care received by the employee provides for his or her essential and regular personal care;
 (c) the extent to which it is reasonable to meet any wish by the employee to live outside an institution;
 (d) the extent to which attendant care services are necessary to enable the employee to undertake or continue employment;
 (e) any assessment made in relation to the rehabilitation of the employee;
 (f) the extent to which a relative of the employee might reasonably be expected to provide attendant care services.
Note: In relation to paragraph (4)(f), see also subsection 4(2).
 (5) Comcare is not liable to pay compensation under subsection (1) in respect of any week within the period of 28 days beginning on the date of the injury unless Comcare determines otherwise in a particular case on the ground of financial hardship or the need to provide for adequate supervision of dependent children.
 (6) An amount of compensation payable by Comcare under subsection (1) or (3) is payable:
 (a) where the employee has paid for the household services or attendant care services, as the case may be—to the employee; or
 (b) in any other case—to the person who provided those services.
 (7) Where Comcare pays an amount to a person who provided household services or attendant care services to an employee, the payment of the amount is, to the extent of the payment, a discharge of the liability of the employee to pay for those services.