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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 90

90 .         Travel

        (1)         An expense is a miscellaneous expense if it is a reasonable expense for —

            (a)         the running costs of the use of the worker’s vehicle for approved travel; or

            (b)         any fare or other cost of approved travel; or

            (c)         meals and accommodation reasonably required in connection with approved travel.

        (2)         Travel by a worker for the purposes of the provision of any thing an expense for which is a medical and health expense or a miscellaneous expense is approved travel if it is —

            (a)         travel that the worker is required to undertake by the employer; or

            (b)         travel that the worker is advised to undertake by a medical practitioner; or

            (c)         travel that the worker establishes is necessary in the particular circumstances of the case.

        (3)         Travel by a worker is also approved travel for the purposes of this section if —

            (a)         the travel is for the purpose of the assessment of the worker’s degree of permanent impairment for the purposes of any provision of this Act; and

            (b)         the worker establishes that the travel is necessary for that purpose in the particular circumstances of the case.

        (4)         The regulations may specify the rates at which expenses referred to in this section are taken to be reasonable.



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