Lifetime Care and Support (Catastrophic Injuries) Act 2014

The LTCS commissioner may exchange information about the treatment and care needs of a participant in the LTCS scheme with the following people:

a licensed insurer within the meaning of the MAI Act;

a workers compensation insurer;

the DI Fund;

DI Fund—see the Workers Compensation Act 1951, dictionary.

a hospital where the participant receives treatment and care for the participant’s injury;

the NSW LCS authority;

the MAI commission;

the nominal defendant;

a person approved in writing by the LTCS commissioner.

If a participant in the LTCS scheme has a work injury, the LTCS commissioner may exchange information about the participant’s treatment and care needs with the participant’s employer only if the information relates to the employer’s obligations under—

the LTCS commissioner’s assessment of the participant’s treatment and care needs under section 23 (Assessment of participant’s treatment and care needs); or

the Workers Compensation Act 1951.

The exchange of information under this section must be in accordance with the LTCS guidelines.

The LTCS guidelines are made under s 93.

In this section:

information used to make an assessment under section 23 about the participant’s treatment and care needs; and

the expenses paid or payable by the LTCS commissioner under the scheme in relation to the treatment and care.