Notice · Personal Injury & Compensation

Mandatory final offer under the Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994 (Qld)

The claimant's mandatory final offer under section 51C of the Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994 (Qld). It stays open for 14 days.

Kind: Notice. A formal notice to serve or publish.
Where it applies: Queensland
AI use: Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
Law stated as at: 23 October 2026
Status: Maintained. Checked on 23 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for Queensland.
Version: 1
Source: Written for this library

When to use it

Use when a Queensland motor accident claim has not settled at the compulsory conference, or the conference has been dispensed with and the offer is due within 14 days of that agreement or order. The client approves the amount. This is not the notice of accident claim and not the insurer's response to that notice.

Used for these tasks

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How AI may be used

The tool may assemble this offer from the client's written instructions, and the lawyer fixes the amount and the costs term before it is sent to the insurer.

AI may

Fill the parties, the claim and the client-approved amount into the offer
Flag an offer at or under the upper offer limit that is not expressed as exclusive of costs
Keep the statement that the offer stays open for 14 days and that proceedings are not started while it is open
Mark the offer as a section 51C offer so it is not confused with the notice of claim

AI must not

Must not choose or change the amount or the costs term
Must not describe this offer as the notice before action, or as the insurer's response to that notice
Must not insert dollar figures for the lower or upper offer limit, or a costs rule that was not read in section 51C
Must not file the offer except in the sealed envelope at the start of a proceeding, or tell the court its terms before the claim is decided

The lawyer checks

The client approved the amount in writing
Section 51C(1): each party exchanges written final offers at the conference, or within 14 days after the agreement or order dispensing with it, unless the court has dispensed with the obligation
Section 51C(3): an offer for the upper offer limit or less is exclusive of costs. The regulation and the dollar amounts of the limits were not opened
Section 51C(4) and (10) are the costs provisions that were read. No other costs section of this Act was opened
Section 51C(6): the offer stays open for 14 days and proceedings must not be started while it remains open
An insurer who denies liability altogether must still offer, expressed as $nil. That is the insurer's offer
If the claimant brings a proceeding, section 51C(7) requires a sealed envelope at the start. The insurer's envelope is filed before or at the defence. The court must not read the offers until it has decided the claim
The compulsory-conference section, and any rule for more than one insurer, were not in section 51C. Confirm them before the conference
This is not the notice of accident claim, and it is not the insurer's response to that notice. Sanction rules and statutory refunds were not opened

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

Authorities

Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994 (Qld) s 51C (written final offers at the compulsory conference or within 14 days after dispensation; exclusive of costs at or under the upper offer limit; $nil on a full denial; open 14 days; sealed envelopes)

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