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MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 256

Amount of permanent impairment and incapacity etc. compensation

  (1)   The amount of compensation that the Commonwealth is liable to pay under section   255 is the amount that is 12 times:

  (a)   the total amount of compensation that the member was paid under the provisions mentioned in paragraph   255(1)(c) for the week before the week in which the member died; or

  (b)   the total amount of compensation that the member was entitled to be paid under those provisions for that week;

(as the case requires).

  (2)   The amount mentioned in subsection   (1) is the total amount of compensation that the Commonwealth is liable to pay under section   255, even if more than one person is entitled to compensation under that section because of the same deceased member's death.

Note:   If more than one person is entitled to compensation under section   255, the amount mentioned in subsection   (1) is payable in accordance with the directions of the Commission (see section   257).


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