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Section Sch1-17 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Home help

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17 Home help (1) In deciding whether to provide or contribute to the cost of home help, the Corporation must have regard to— (a) any rehabilitation outcome that would be achieved by providing it; and (b) the extent to which a claimant undertook domestic activities before the claimant's personal injury and the extent to which he or she is able to undertake domestic activities after his or her injury; and (c) the number of household family members and their need for home help; and (d) the extent to which domestic activities were done by other household family members before the claimant's personal injury; and (e) the extent to which other household family members or other family members might reasonably be expected to do domestic activities for themselves and for the claimant after the claimant's personal injury; and (f) the need to avoid substantial disruption to the employment or other activities of the household family members; and (g) the impact of the claimant's personal injury on the contribution of other family members to domestic activities. (2) The Corporation is not required to pay for home help to the extent that home help continues to be provided after a claimant's personal injury by a person— (a) who lives in the claimant's home or lived in the claimant's home immediately before the claimant suffered his or her personal injury; and (b) who provided home help before the claimant suffered his or her personal injury. Compare: 1998 No 114 Schedule 1 cl 46 Subclause (2) was amended, as from 1 July 2005, by section 60(1) Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45) by substituting the words “ is not required to ” for the words “ is not liable to ” .

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