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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION REGULATION 2014 - REG 124

Particulars if injury causes death

124 Particulars if injury causes death

(1) A notice of claim relating to an injury causing death must include the following additional particulars—
(a) if the claimant is the spouse of the deceased worker—
(i) the relevant date; and
(ii) the relevant place; and
(iii) the claimant’s net (after tax) weekly income immediately before and after the worker’s death; and
(iv) the age to which the claimant intended to work and the basis of the claimant’s future employment, that is, whether full-time or part-time; and
(v) details of any health problems that the claimant currently has; and
(vi) the amount of average weekly financial benefit derived by the claimant from the deceased worker before the worker’s death and the method of calculating the amount; and
(vii) the expected date of birth of a posthumous child of the relationship; and
(viii) details of any remarriage or start of a marriage-like relationship; or
(b) if the claimant is not the spouse of the deceased worker—
(i) the claimant’s relationship to the deceased worker; and
(ii) the claimant’s net (after tax) weekly earnings; and
(iii) the age to which the claimant would have been dependent on the deceased worker and the basis of the dependency; and
(iv) details of any health problems that the claimant currently has; and
(v) the amount of average weekly financial benefit derived by the claimant from the deceased worker immediately before the worker’s death and the method of calculating the amount.
(2) In this section—

"relevant date" means—
(a) the date of marriage; or
(b) the date the civil partnership had effect; or
(c) the date on which the de facto relationship started.

"relevant place" means—
(a) the place of the marriage; or
(b) the place of registration of the civil partnership; or
(c) the residential address where the de facto relationship started.



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