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Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
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### 6B Prescribed classes of volunteers
> *\[Section 6B Inserted by No. 16 of 1995, s. 9 \]*
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> > (1) Persons of a prescribed class who voluntarily perform work of a prescribed class which is of benefit to the State are taken to be workers employed by the Crown.
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> > (2) For the purpose of assessing the compensation payable to or in respect of a person to whom [subsection (1)](#GS6B@Gs1@EN) applies, the normal weekly earnings of that person are –
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> > > > (a) if the person was working under a contract of service with any person immediately before voluntarily performing work of the prescribed class, to be computed according to the person's earnings under that contract; and
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> > > > (b) [*\[Section 6B Subsection (2) amended by No. 99 of 2000, s. 10, Applied:01 Jul 2001\]*](/view/html/inforce/2001-07-01/act-2000-099#GS10@EN) if the person was not working under a contract of service immediately before voluntarily performing work of the prescribed class, to be the basic salary.