127Payments during 39-week period

127 Payments during 39-week period

127 Payments during 39-week period

(1) During the 39-week period for an incapacitated current police officer, the Commissioner must pay the police officer an amount representing any shortfall between—

(a) the amount of the weekly compensation payments, and

(b) the amount of the ordinary rate of pay the police officer would have received in the 39-week period if the police officer had not sustained a total or partial incapacity for work during that period as a result of an injury.

Note—

Police officers to whom this division applies may receive payments under this section for up to 39 weeks in certain circumstances but may receive payments for a lesser period depending on their entitlement to payments under workers compensation legislation.

(2) To avoid doubt, if the incapacitated current police officer ceases receiving weekly compensation payments in relation to the injury during the 39-week period—

(a) payments under this section cease, and

(b) if the 39-week period was not exhausted—the 39-week period and payments under this section may resume if the police officer resumes receiving weekly compensation payments in relation to the injury, and

(c) any period during which payments under this section in relation to the injury cease is not taken to be part of the 39-week period.