Workers Compensation Act 1987

The amendments made by Schedule 3 [1]–[3] to the 2015 amending Act to section 59A of the 1987 Act are for the removal of doubt and, accordingly, that section is taken to have been so amended from its own commencement.

However, those amendments do not affect any decision of the Commission or a court, or any compromise or settlement, made before the commencement of the amendments.

Section 59A of the 1987 Act (as inserted by an amendment made by the 2015 amending Act) extends to the compensation payable to an injured worker who—

first made a claim for weekly payments of compensation in respect of the injury before the commencement of the amendment, but not before 1 October 2012, or

was an existing recipient of weekly payments in respect of the injury.