Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 232K

232K Meaning of excluded treatment, care or support

(1) Treatment, care or support is
"excluded treatment, care or support" if it—

(a) is provided without charge; or

(b) for a child—ordinarily falls within the ordinary costs of raising a child; or

(c) must be provided by a registered provider but is provided by a person who, at the time of provision, is not a registered provider; or

(d) is provided as part of a medical trial or on another experimental basis; or

(e) is provided by State emergency services, including the Queensland Ambulance Service, Queensland Fire and Rescue or Rural Fire Service Queensland; or

(f) is prescribed by regulation.

(2) For subsection (1) (c) , the following treatment, care or support must be provided by a registered provider—

(a) attendant care and support services that are personal assistance services or services to assist a person to participate in the community;

(b) any other treatment, care or support prescribed by regulation.

(3) However, subsection (2) (a) does not apply if the treatment, care or support is being provided to a person at a hospital (whether as an in-patient or an outpatient) as part of the services provided by the hospital.

(4) In this section—

"registered provider" , of a service, means an entity registered in the register of providers as a provider of the service.

"register of providers" means the register of providers kept by the Regulator and made available on the department’s website.