This legislation has been repealed.
(1) An offender, while
doing community work or community corrections activities under a community
corrections order is to be regarded for the purposes of the Workers’
Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981 as a worker employed by the Crown.
(2) For the purposes
of the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981 an
offender’s weekly earnings shall be taken to be the amount that the
Minister considers reasonable in the circumstances.