Weekly payments amendments to apply where work capacity assessment not conducted
17 Weekly payments amendments to apply where work capacity assessment not conducted
On and from 1 September 2015, the weekly payments amendments apply to the compensation payable under Division 2 of Part 3 of the 1987 Act (in respect of any period of incapacity occurring on and after that date) to an existing recipient of weekly payments in respect of whom a work capacity assessment has not been conducted before that date.
For the purposes of the application under this clause of the weekly payments amendments to an existing recipient of weekly payments who is in receipt of weekly payments of compensation immediately before 1 September 2015, the worker is taken (until a work capacity assessment is conducted in respect of the worker) to have been assessed by the insurer as having no current work capacity.
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