Motor Accident Insurance Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1999 (Qld)

Queensland

MOTOR ACCIDENT INSURANCE AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1999

MOTOR ACCIDENT INSURANCE AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1999

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page 1 Short title 2.0... eee eee 4 2 Act amended .......... 0.0 e eee 4 3 Insertion of new ss 97A and 97B ... keene ee 4

97A Prohibition on touting at scene of incident or at any time........ 4

97B Consequence if person approved under Act is convicted under s 97A

A BILL FOR

An Act to amend the Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994

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The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Motor Accident Insurance Amendment Act (No. 2) 1999.

Act amended 2. This Act amends the Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994.

Insertion of new ss 97A and 97B 3. After section 97— insert—

'Prohibition on touting at scene of incident or at any time "97A.(1) At the scene of an incident—

(a) aprohibited person must not solicit or induce a potential claimant involved in the incident to make a claim; or

(b) a person, other than a prohibited person, must not solicit or induce, in a way that would be unreasonable in the circumstances, a potential claimant involved in the incident to make a claim.

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units. Example for paragraph (b)—

A person who lives near the scene of the incident helps a potential claimant immediately after the incident. If the person, without being asked to do so, telephones a lawyer and insists the potential claimant speaks with the lawyer about making a claim, the person is acting in a way that would be unreasonable in the circumstances.

"(2) Subsections (3) and (4) apply to—

(a) a prohibited person who is attending or has attended an incident; or 11 13 15202226

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(b)

(c)

"(3) The person—

(a)

(b)

a person who obtains information about an incident for the purpose of the person's employment; or