Queensland Consolidated Acts

CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2003 - SECT 62

62 Calculation of general damages

(1) For an injury arising after 1 December 2002, general damages must be calculated under this section.

(2) The Minister may make a notice under section 75 , for a financial year, fixing the following for each injury scale value—

(a) a base amount, if any;

(b) a variable amount.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2) (b) , a notice is taken to fix a variable amount for an injury scale value if the notice states the way in which the variable amount is to be worked out.

(4) The general damages for an injury are the sum of the following amounts, fixed by the notice under subsection (2) , for the period within which the injury arose—

(a) any base amount for the injury scale value for the injury;

(b) the variable amount for the injury scale value for the injury.