89Late payment of weekly payments

89 Late payment of weekly payments (1) If a person (the liable person) liable under this Part to make a weekly payment of compensation to a worker fails to make the weekly payment on or before the day on which the liable person is required to do so, the worker must, in respect of that weekly payment, be paid, in addition to any other payment required to be made under this Part, an amount represented by the formula: A x the prescribed rate of interest x B where: A is the amount of that weekly payment payable to the worker; and

Return to Work Act 1986 93 B is the number of weeks (with a part of a week being counted as a whole week) occurring within the period commencing immediately after the day on which payment of that weekly payment was due and concluding at the end of the day on which payment of that weekly payment is made. (2) If the liable person disputes liability for compensation and the dispute is later resolved wholly or partly in favour of the worker, for the purpose of calculating interest under subsection (1), weekly payments are taken to have fallen due when they would have fallen due had there been no dispute.