New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 35

35 Maximum weekly payment

(1) The maximum weekly payment of compensation to an injured worker in respect of any period of total or partial incapacity for work shall not in any case exceed $1,000.

(2) If the amount mentioned in subsection (1):

(a) is adjusted by the operation of Division 6, or

(b) is adjusted by an amendment of this section,

the maximum weekly payment of compensation applicable to a worker injured before the date on which the adjustment takes effect is, for any period of incapacity for work occurring on and after that date, to be determined by reference to that amount as so adjusted.

(3) Such an adjustment does not apply to the extent that the liability to make weekly payments of compensation in respect of any such period of incapacity has been commuted.