Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01701:reg:5:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01701
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 5720–6942

by reason of incapacity from that injury or disease alone, prevented from continuing to undertake remunerative work that the member was undertaking and is, as a result, suffering a loss of salary or wages, or of earnings on the member's own account, being a loss that the member would not be suffering if the member were free of that incapacity.
wife means a wife whether by custom or otherwise and includes wives of a polygamous union where those unions are in accordance with recognised custom and where the marriage was contracted before or during the period of service of the member or within fifteen years after his discharge from the Forces.
 (2) For the purposes of the definition of totally incapacitated in subsection (1), a member who is incapacitated from injury or disease that has been accepted as related to the member's relevant war service is not taken to be suffering a loss of salary or wages, or of earnings on the member's own account, by reason of that incapacity if:
 (a) the member has ceased to engage in remunerative work for reasons other than his incapacity from that injury or disease; or
 (b) the member is incapacitated, or prevented, from engaging in remunerative work for some other reason.