Return to Work Regulations 2015
Part 1Preliminary
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Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title These regulations may be cited as the Return to Work Regulations 2015. 3—Interpretation In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears— Act means the Return to Work Act 2014; commercial motor vehicle means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted solely or mainly for the carriage of goods or materials (including money) by road, including a prime mover, truck, panel van, utility and station wagon, but not including a motor cycle; GST means the tax payable under the GST law; GST law means— (a) A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth; and (b) the related legislation of the Commonwealth dealing with the imposition of a tax on the supply of goods, services and other things; prime bank rate, for a particular financial year, means a rate (expressed as an annual percentage to 2 decimal places) equal to the average of— (a) the 12 months fixed‑rate personal home loan rate fixed by the National Australia Bank Limited (NAB) as at the commencement of the financial year (or, if there is more than 1 such rate, the average of all such rates); and (b) the fixed‑rate unsecured personal loan rate fixed by NAB as at the commencement of the financial year (or, if there is more than 1 such rate, the average of all such rates). 4—Indexation If a monetary sum referred to in these regulations is followed by the words (indexed), the amount is to be adjusted on 1 January of each year, beginning on 1 January 2016, by multiplying the stated amount by a proportion obtained by dividing the Consumer Price Index for the September quarter of the immediately preceding year by the Consumer Price Index for the September quarter of 2014 (with the amount so adjusted being rounded up to the nearest dollar).