Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 232ZC

232ZC Worker entitled for life elects to seek treatment, care and support damages—damages awarded and accepted

(1) This section applies if the worker—

(a) is an eligible worker for the worker’s injury for the rest of the worker’s life; and

(b) elects to seek treatment, care and support damages for the injury; and

(c) is awarded treatment, care and support damages for the injury; and

(d) accepts the awarded treatment, care and support damages within the acceptance period.

(2) The worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments for the worker’s injury continues until the awarded treatment, care and support damages are accepted by the worker, at which time the worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments for the injury stops.

Note—

See section 270 for what happens when treatment, care and support damages for an injury are awarded to a worker who has received treatment, care and support payments for the injury.