Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) This section only applies to an earner who was a self-employed person at the time he or she was injured in a transport accident.
(2) If the person suffers a total loss of earnings that is a result of, or that is materially contributed to by, the injury, the Commission is liable to pay the person 75% of the amount specified for the purposes of section 44(3)(a) until the day on which the first of these events occurs—
(a) the person's period of entitlement (as defined by section 44(4)) ends; or
(b) the expiry of the first 12 weeks of that period of entitlement; or
(c) the Commission determines the amount of the person's pre-accident weekly earnings.
Note
This section only applies to a person who was injured in a transport accident that occurs on or after the date of commencement of section 8 of the Transport Accident (Amendment) Act 2004 —see section 186.
S. 45AB inserted by No. 94/2004 s. 8.