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SEAFARERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1992 - SECT 35

Compensation for injuries resulting in incapacity where employee rolled - over part of a lump sum benefit

  (1)   This section applies to an employee who:

  (a)   has been incapacitated for work as a result of an injury; and

  (b)   retired (whether voluntarily or otherwise) from his or her employment at any time after the commencement of this section; and

  (c)   as a result of the retirement, receives a lump sum benefit under a superannuation scheme; and

  (d)   rolled - over part of the lump sum benefit into a superannuation fund or an approved deposit fund.

  (2)   Compensation is payable to the employee for the injury under this section for each week after the date of the retirement during which the employee is incapacitated.

  (3)   The amount of compensation is an amount worked out using the formula:

Start formula Unadjusted amount of compensation minus open square bracket open bracket start fraction Superannuation amount over 520 end fraction times start fraction Amount not rolled-over over Lump sum benefit end fraction close bracket plus Superannuation contributions close square bracket end formula

where:

"Unadjusted amount of compensation" means the amount of compensation that would have been payable to the employee for a week if:

  (a)   section   31, other than subsection   31(8), had applied to the employee; and

  (b)   the week were a week referred to in subsection   31(4).

"Amount not rolled-over" means the amount not rolled - over or withdrawn from the superannuation fund or approved deposit fund to which the lump sum benefit was rolled - over.

"Lump sum benefit" means the amount of the lump sum benefit received by the employee.

"Superannuation amount" means the superannuation amount received by the employee as a lump sum.

  (4)   In this section:

"approved deposit fund" has the same meaning as in section   34.

"rolled-over" has the same meaning as in section   34.

"superannuation fund" has the same meaning as in section   34.



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