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WORKPLACE INJURY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2013 - SECT 237

Dependent children and partners and partially dependent partner

    (1)     If the worker leaves—

        (a)     one or more partially dependent partners; or

        (b)     one or more partially dependent partners and one or more dependants, whether dependent children or dependent partners—

each partially dependent partner, each dependent child and each dependent partner is entitled to the amount of compensation, being such share of a sum not exceeding $555 350 which the court, the Authority or self-insurer considers is reasonable and appropriate to the injury to that dependant.

    (2)     If the worker does not leave any dependent partner, dependent child or partially dependent partner but leaves any other person who is to any extent dependent on the worker's earnings, the amount of compensation is a sum not exceeding $555 350 which the court, Authority or self‑insurer considers is reasonable and appropriate to the injury to that person or, if more than one, to those persons in such shares as the court, the Authority, or self-insurer determines.

    (3)     If the worker, being under the age of 21 years at the time of the injury, leaves no dependent partner, dependent child or partially dependent partner but, immediately before the injury, was contributing to the maintenance of the home of the members of the worker's family, the members of the worker's family are deemed to have been partly dependent on the worker's earnings at the time of the worker's death.



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