Section 59(1)(c) of the Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld) operates as a threshold provision: once the requirement of six hours per week for six months is initially met, damages for gratuitous services can be awarded for subsequent periods where services fall below six hours per week. Section 59(3) does not provide an independent statutory entitlement to damages for gratuitous services replacing services the claimant would have provided to household members; it merely purported to limit what the legislature wrongly understood the common law to be. Sturch v Willmott and Sullivan v Gordon are disapproved.
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