Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186:section:19:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19 (pt 5/5)
Character Range: 94222–96290

amount of $50.
 (9) If there are prescribed children in relation to whom this Act applies (whether born before, on or after the date of the injury) wholly or mainly dependent on the employee, there shall be added to the amount of $202 specified in paragraph (7)(a) the amount of $25 for each of those children, but an amount shall not be so added for a child in relation to any period before the date of birth of that child.
 (10) If a prescribed child is:
 (a) a prescribed person in relation to the employee; and
 (b) the only prescribed person who is wholly or mainly dependent on the employee;
subsection (9) does not apply in relation to that child.
 (11) If 2 or more prescribed children are each:
 (a) a prescribed person in relation to the employee; and
 (b) wholly or mainly dependent on the employee;
subsection (8) applies in relation to one of those children and subsection (9) applies in relation to the remainder of those children.
 (12) In this section, prescribed person, in relation to an employee, means:
 (a) the spouse of the employee; or
 (b) any of the following persons, being a person who is 16 or more:
 (i) the parent, step‑parent, father‑in‑law, mother‑in‑law, grandparent, child, stepchild, grandchild, sibling or half‑sibling of the employee;
 (ii) a person in relation to whom the employee stands in the position of a parent or who stands in the position of a parent to the employee;
 (iii) a person (other than the spouse of the employee or a person referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii)) who is wholly or mainly maintained by the employee and has the care of a prescribed child, being a child who is wholly or mainly dependent on the employee.
Note: In relation to subparagraph (12)(b)(i), see also subsection 4(2).
 (14) For the purposes of the definition of prescribed person in subsection (12), a person who has the care of a child referred to in subparagraph (12)(b)(iii) shall not be taken not to be wholly or mainly maintained by an employee merely because the employee pays remuneration to the person for caring for that child.