Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThere are payable to Comcare, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, such amounts as are necessary:
(a) to enable Comcare to discharge any liability that is taken, by section 128, to have been incurred by Comcare and has not been discharged before the commencement of this section; and
(ab) to enable Comcare to discharge a liability incurred because of an event or process that:
(i) happened or commenced before 1 December 1988; and
(ii) results in an injury, loss or damage that first manifests itself on or after 1 December 1988.
Example: An event--a person's inhalation of asbestos fibres--that happened before 1 December 1988 and results in an injury, loss or damage--the person's contraction of mesothelioma--that manifests itself on or after 1 December 1988.
(b) to meet any administrative expenses incurred by Comcare after the commencement of this section that are attributable to the performance by Comcare of its functions in respect of claims for a liability mentioned in paragraph (a) or (ab).