• The Motor Vehicle Accidents (Lifetime Support Scheme) Act 2013 (SA) (the Act) establishes the Lifetime Support Authority (the LSA) and authorises the making of the Lifetime Support Scheme Rules (the LSS Rules).
  • The Lifetime Support Scheme (the Scheme) provides Treatment, care and support (TCS) to people who have suffered a catastrophic injury in a Motor Vehicle Accident (see Part 2 of the LSS Rules) and who meet the eligibility criteria (and are not excluded by other provisions).
  • The LSS Rules cover any matter that the Act requires them to do and the matters the Act permits them to cover. The LSS Rules:
    • give content to the Scheme as authorised by the Act, and
    • provide practical processes for implementing the Scheme.
  • The LSA keeps the LSS Rules under review and consults with stakeholders during review.
  • The LSS Rules are statutory instruments under the Legislation Interpretation Act 2021 (SA). The LSA interprets them under that Act and the ordinary principles of statutory interpretation.
  • As a statutory decision-maker, the LSA applies the LSS Rules according to administrative law.
  • In administering the Act and the LSS Rules, the LSA is not adversarial.
  • If a dispute can only be resolved by recourse to the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the LSA and its legal representative (if any) will comply with the duties of the Crown as a model litigant. (For details of the Crown’s model litigant duties, refer to Legal Bulletin No. 2, 10 June 2011 – as amended from time to time)

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