28Entitlement to long service payments

28 Entitlement to long service payments

28 Entitlement to long service payments

(1) A person who is a registered worker having service credits in the register of workers may apply to the Corporation in the approved form for a long service payment if—

(a) the person has completed 10 years’ service as a worker,

(b) (Repealed)

(c) the person has completed 5 years’ service as a worker and satisfies the Corporation that he or she has permanently ceased to perform building and construction work,

(d) the person has completed 55 days’ service as a worker and, having attained the prescribed retiring age, satisfies the Corporation that he or she has permanently ceased to perform building and construction work,

(e) the person has completed 55 days’ service as a worker and a registered medical practitioner has certified the person to be totally and permanently incapacitated for building and construction work,

(f) the person has completed 5 years’ service as a worker since the person—

(i) first became entitled to apply for a long service payment by virtue of paragraph (a), or

(ii) would have become so entitled but for the operation of any provision of section 31,

whether or not any such payment was made, or

(g) the person has completed 5 years’ service as a worker since the person—

(i) last became entitled to apply for a long service payment under paragraph (f), or under any previous application of this paragraph, or

(ii) would have become so entitled but for the operation of any provision of section 31,

whether or not any such payment was made.

(2) The personal representative of a person who died having service credits in the register of workers may apply to the Corporation in the approved form for a long service payment if—

(a) the person was, immediately before death, entitled to apply for a long service payment by virtue of subsection (1) (a), (f) or (g),

(b) the person had, immediately before the date of death, completed 10 or more years’ service as a worker, or