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SEAFARERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1992 No. 234, 1992 - SECT 15

15.(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to have been wholly or
partly dependent on an employee at the date of the employee's death if the
person would have been so dependent apart from an incapacity of the employee
that resulted from an injury.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a person who, immediately before the date of
an employee's death, lived with the employee and was:

   (a)  the employee's spouse; or

   (b)  a prescribed child of the employee; is taken to be a person who was
        wholly dependent on the employee at that date.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, other than subsection 29(5), a son or
daughter of a deceased employee who was born alive after the employee's death
must be treated as if he or she had been born immediately before the
employee's death and was wholly dependent on the employee at the date of the
employee's death.

(4) In determining, for the purposes of this Act, whether a child is or was
dependent on an employee, the following are not to be taken into account:

   (a)  an amount of allowance under Part 2.17, 2.18 or 2.19 of the Social 
        Security Act 1991 ; or

   (b)  an amount of pension under Part 2.20 of that Act.