Section Sch1-14 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Attendant care
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14 Attendant care In deciding whether to provide or contribute to the cost of attendant care, the Corporation must have regard to— (a) any rehabilitation outcome that would be achieved by providing it; and (b) the nature and extent of the claimant's personal injury and the degree to which that injury impairs his or her ability to provide for his or her personal care; and (c) the extent to which attendant care is necessary to enable the claimant to undertake or continue employment (including agreed vocational training) or to attend a place of education, having regard to any entitlement the claimant has to education support; and (d) the extent to which household family members or other family members might reasonably be expected to provide attendant care for the claimant after the claimant's personal injury; and (e) the extent to which attendant care is required to give household family members a break, from time to time, from providing attendant care for the claimant; and (f) the need to avoid substantial disruption to the employment or other activities of household family members. Compare: 1998 No 114 Schedule 1 cl 44
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