Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00587:section:129
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00587
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 129
Character Range: 220039–221072

129  Amount of compensation for maximum rate weeks
 (1) If subsection 125(1) applies to a person, the amount of compensation that the Commonwealth is liable, under section 118, to pay to the person for a week that is a maximum rate week is worked out using the following formula:

Note: Section 132 defines normal earnings and actual earnings.
 (2) In this Subdivision, a week is a maximum rate week for a person who is incapacitated for work if:
 (a) it is a week during which:
 (i) the person's incapacity prevents the person from working his or her normal weekly hours; or
 (ii) if the person is working his or her normal weekly hours, the person's incapacity prevents the person from working at the level at which he or she worked before the incapacity; and
 (b) the total number of hours in that week, and in all previous maximum rate weeks (if any), during which the incapacity has prevented the person from so working, does not exceed 45 times the person's normal weekly hours.
Note: Section 132 defines normal weekly hours.