Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 218

    In determining whether attendant care services are reasonably required for a person, the Commission must have regard to the following matters:

  (a)   the nature of the person's injury or disease;

  (b)   the degree to which that injury or disease impairs the person's ability to provide for his or her personal care;

  (c)   the extent to which any medical service or nursing care received by the person provides for his or her essential and regular personal care;

  (d)   the extent to which the attendant care services are necessary to meet any reasonable wish by the person to live outside an institution;

  (e)   the extent to which attendant care services are necessary to enable the person to undertake or continue defence service or any other work;

  (f)   any assessment made in relation to the rehabilitation of the person;

  (g)   the extent to which a relative of the person might reasonably be expected to provide attendant care services;

  (h)   any other matter that the Commission considers relevant.