Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186:section:8:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 59003–61604

injury shall be calculated in relation to such other period as the MRCC considers reasonable for the purpose of arriving at an amount that does fairly represent the weekly rate at which the employee was being so paid.
 (6) Subject to this section, if the minimum amount per week payable to an employee in respect of his or her employment by the Commonwealth at the date of the injury is increased, or would have been increased if the employee had continued in that employment, because of:
 (a) the attainment by the employee of a particular age;
 (b) the completion by the employee of a particular period of service; or
 (c) the receipt by the employee of an increase in salary, wages or pay by way of an increment in a range of salary, wages or pay applicable to the employee or to his or her office, position or appointment;
the normal weekly earnings of the employee before the injury, as calculated under the preceding subsections, shall be increased by the same percentage as the percentage by which that minimum amount per week is increased, or would have been increased, as the case may be.
 (7) Subject to this section, if:
 (a) an employee continues to be employed by the Commonwealth after the date of an injury; and
 (b) the minimum amount per week payable to the employee in respect of that employment is increased because of the promotion of the employee;
the normal weekly earnings of the employee before the injury, as calculated under the preceding subsections, shall be increased by the same percentage as the percentage by which that minimum amount per week is increased.
 (8) Subject to this section, where:
 (a) the employment of an employee is of a kind referred to in subsection 5(4) or subsection (3) of this section; and
 (b) the employee is not receiving earnings from any other employment at the date of the injury;
the normal weekly earnings of the employee before the injury shall be an amount determined by the MRCC to be the amount per week that the employee would have been able to earn at the date of the injury (including any amount in respect of overtime worked on a regular basis) if he or she had engaged in suitable paid employment.
 (9) The normal weekly earnings of an employee before the date of the employee's injury, as calculated under the preceding subsections, must, while the employee continues to be employed by the Commonwealth, be increased or reduced by the relevant percentage.
 (9A) For the purposes of subsection (9), relevant percentage means the same percentage as the percentage of increase or reduction in the minimum amount per week payable in