South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations31—Transitional provision—lump sum compensation
(1) In this
regulation—
"principal Act" means the Workers Rehabilitation and
Compensation Act 1986 ;
2008 Amendment Act means the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scheme
Review) Amendment Act 2008 .
(2) The minimum
amounts of compensation payable under Schedules 3 and 3A of the
principal Act, as inserted by section 83 of the 2008 Amendment Act, will
be taken to have been indexed from 1 January 2009 in the manner
specified by section 3(15) of the principal Act.
(3) For the purposes
of clause 10 of Schedule 1 of the 2008 Amendment Act, the amount of
compensation payable to a particular worker will be assessed as a proportion
of—
(a) in
respect of a compensable disability occurring before
1 January 2009—$400 000 as the prescribed sum;
(b) in
respect of a compensable disability occurring on or after
1 January 2009 and before the commencement of section 24 of the
2008 Amendment Act—$400 000, indexed from 1 January 2009
in the manner specified by section 3(15) of the principal Act, as the
prescribed sum.