Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SEAFARERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1992 No. 234, 1992 - SECT 47

47.(1) Subject to subsection (2), if, in relation to a day in respect of which
compensation is payable to an employee under section 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 or
45, an amount is paid or payable to the employee by the employer by way of
salary, wages or pay, the amount of compensation payable under that section in
respect of that day must be reduced by the amount so paid or payable to the
employee.

(2) If, in relation to a day in respect of which compensation is payable to an
employee under section 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 or 45, an amount is payable to
the employee in relation to recreation leave, the amount must not be paid and
the employee must be recredited with a day's recreation leave.

(3) In this section, a reference to an amount paid or payable to an employee
by the employer does not include a reference to:

   (a)  an amount by way of pay in respect of a period of long service leave
        that is granted, or instead of the grant of a period of long service
        leave; or

   (b)  any amount that the employee is able to earn in suitable employment,
        being an amount that has been taken into account for the purposes of
        working out the amount of compensation payable to the employee under
        section 31.