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In forceSpecial provision for seriously injured workers
Schedule 6Savings, transitional and other provisions
Part 19HProvisions consequent on enactment of Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2012
Division 2Weekly payments
10 Special provision for seriously injured workers
(1)
The weekly payments amendments apply from the commencement of those amendments to the compensation payable under Division 2 of Part 3 of the 1987 Act to an existing recipient of weekly payments who is a seriously injured worker.
(2)
For the purposes of the application under this clause of the weekly payments amendments to a seriously injured worker, the worker’s pre-injury average weekly earnings are deemed to be equal to the transitional amount.
Note.
The transitional amount is initially $906.25 and is indexed annually.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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