New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENT INJURIES ACT 2017 - SECT 3.24

3.24 Entitlement to statutory benefits for treatment and care

(1) An injured person is entitled to statutory benefits for the following expenses (
"treatment and care expenses" ) incurred in connection with providing treatment and care for the injured person--

(a) the reasonable cost of treatment and care,

(b) reasonable and necessary travel and accommodation expenses incurred by the injured person in order to obtain treatment and care for which statutory benefits are payable,

(c) if the injured person is under the age of 18 years or otherwise requires assistance to travel for treatment and care, reasonable and necessary travel and accommodation expenses incurred by a parent or other carer of the injured person in order to accompany the injured person while treatment and care for which statutory benefits are payable is being provided.

(2) No statutory benefits are payable for the cost of treatment and care to the extent that the treatment and care concerned was not reasonable and necessary in the circumstances or did not relate to the injury resulting from the motor accident concerned.

(3) The Motor Accident Guidelines may provide for--

(a) circumstances in which the cost of treatment and care is taken to be reasonable for the purposes of this section, and

(b) circumstances in which treatment and care is taken to be reasonable and necessary for the purposes of subsection (2).

Note--: See Part 7 and Schedule 2 for provisions relating to disputes about whether treatment and care, or the cost or treatment and care, provided or to be provided to an injured person is reasonable and necessary.