New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2016 - REG 144

144 Prevention of double allowance for provisional compensation payments

(1) In this clause--

"provisional compensation payment" means provisional weekly payment of compensation or provisional payment of medical expenses compensation, under Part 3 of Chapter 7 of the 1998 Act, on the basis of provisional acceptance of liability to a worker.

(2) For the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (d) of the definition of
"cost of claims" in clause 143(1), if payments are made in respect of a claim pursuant to the 1987 Act and provisional compensation payments have been made in respect of the injury concerned--

(a) the provisional compensation payments are, for the purposes of determining the cost of the claim, taken to be payments made by the insurer in respect of the claim pursuant to the 1987 Act and are to be included as such under clause 145, and

(b) clause 146 does not apply to those provisional compensation payments, and

(c) the cost of those provisional compensation payments is not to be included in the total of the costs of provisional compensation payments under paragraphs (a)(ii) and (d)(ii) of the definition of
"cost of claims" in clause 143(1).