Section 15(3) of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) operates so that the preclusion on recovery of damages for gratuitous attendant care services applies only if both the intensity threshold (less than 6 hours per week) and the duration threshold (less than 6 months) are satisfied concurrently. Once either threshold is passed, the plaintiff has satisfied the hurdle to recovery once and for all. The earlier decisions in Geaghan v D'Aubert and RTA v McGregor, which treated the thresholds as independent and ongoing preconditions, are overruled. Ministerial statements of intention as to the meaning of statutory words are virtually never useful for ascertaining the meaning of the enacted text.
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