8Indexation—compensation amount for workers with highest needs: section 82BA

8 Indexation—compensation amount for workers with highest needs: section 82BA

8 Indexation—compensation amount for workers with highest needs: section 82BA

For the purposes of section 82BA of the 1987 Act, the amount specified in the Table to this clause in respect of a review date is declared to be the amount that is to apply as the amount specified in section 38A of the 1987 Act as varied on that review date.

Table

| Column 1 | Column 2 | | Review date | Amount | | 1 April 2019 | $840 | | 1 October 2019 | $845 | | 1 April 2020 | $854 | | 1 October 2020 | $854 | | 1 April 2021 | $861 | | 1 October 2021 | $871 | | 1 April 2022 | $887 | | 1 October 2022 | $917 |

Note 1—

See clause 6 of the Workers Compensation (Indexation of Amounts) Order 2013 for varied amounts in respect of review dates occurring from 1 April 2016 to 1 October 2018.

Note 2—

The amount specified in section 38A of the Workers Compensation Act 1987, as varied in accordance with section 82BA of the Act on 1 October 2020, is $836. This variation has the effect of reducing the amount. Accordingly, under section 82C(a) of the Act, the variation is deemed not to have taken effect and the amount $854, as specified in respect of 1 April 2020, continues to apply. Section 82C(b) provides for the variation of the amount in respect of the next or a subsequent financial year.

cl 8: Am 2019 (456), Sch 1 [5]; 2020 (92), Sch 1[5]; 2020 (579), Sch 1[6]–[8]; 2021 (128), Sch 1[5]; 2021 (570), Sch 1[5]; 2022 (102), Sch 1[5]; 2022 (566), Sch 1[5].