Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00652:reg:30:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00652
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 30 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 70707–73302

30  Compensation for injuries resulting in incapacity—Prime Minister's spouse
 (1) This section applies to a covered person:
 (a) who is incapacitated for work as a result of an injury; and
 (b) who is the Prime Minister's spouse; and
 (c) whose normal weekly earnings are not nil;
other than a covered person to whom section 31, 32, 33 or 34 applies.
 (2) Subject to this Part, the Commonwealth is liable to pay to the covered person in respect of the injury, for each week that is a maximum rate compensation week during which the covered person is incapacitated, an amount of compensation worked out using the formula:
where:
AE is the greater of the following amounts:
 (a) the amount per week (if any) that the covered person is able to earn in suitable employment;
 (b) the amount per week (if any) that the covered person earns from any employment (including self‑employment) that is undertaken by the covered person during that week.
NWE is the amount of the covered person's normal weekly earnings.
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a week is a maximum rate compensation week, in relation to a covered person to whom this section applies, if:
 (a) it is a week during which the covered person's incapacity prevents the covered person working the covered person's normal weekly hours because the covered person is unable to work or unable to work at the level at which the covered person worked before the injury; and
 (b) the total number of hours that the covered person has been prevented from working, or working at that level, during that incapacity, in that week and in all previous weeks, if any, to which paragraph (a) applies, does not exceed 45 times the covered person's normal weekly hours.
 (4) If, before the end of a particular week, the total of the hours that the covered person has been prevented from working, or working at the level at which the covered person worked before the injury, in that week and in previous weeks, will exceed 45 times the covered person's normal weekly hours:
 (a) subsection (2) applies in respect of the part of the week before that total number of hours is exceeded in accordance with subsection (5); and
 (b) subsection (7) applies in respect of the remainder of the week in accordance with subsection (6).
 (5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(a), the compensation payable in respect of the part of the week to which that paragraph refers is an amount worked out using the formula:
where:
AE applies in relation to the whole of that particular week and has the same meaning as in subsection (2).
NWE is the amount of the covered