628Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025—section 224

628 Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025—section 224

(1) This section applies to a family member of a worker who, immediately before the commencement day, was receiving or became entitled to receive compensation under section 224(1)(b) in respect of an injury to the worker, including an eligible progressive disease, or in respect of the death of the worker.

(2) Section 224(1)(b), as amended by section 13 of the amending Act, applies to a family member referred to in subsection (1) for the purposes of determining the services for which compensation is payable under that section in respect of the injury, eligible progressive disease or death.

(3) Despite subsection (2), the amount of compensation payable to a family member referred to in subsection (1) is the amount of compensation to which the person was entitled under section 224(1)(b), as in force immediately before the commencement day, in respect of the injury, eligible progressive disease or death.

amending Act means the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025;

commencement day means the date of commencement of section 13 of the amending Act.

New s. 629 inserted by No. 27/2025 s. 36.