Western Australian Numbered Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 102

102 .         Further permanent impairment from subsequent injury

        (1)         In this section —

        compensable injury means an injury to a worker that is a personal injury by accident in respect of which permanent impairment compensation under this Division has been paid or is payable to the worker.

        (2)         If a worker has, by a compensable injury, suffered a permanent impairment described in column 1 of the Table to section 101 and by a subsequent compensable injury suffers further permanent impairment of the same body part or faculty —

            (a)         the amount of permanent impairment compensation payable for that further impairment is the amount that is proportionate to any increase (resulting from that subsequent compensable injury) in the degree of permanent impairment; and

            (b)         the amount of permanent impairment compensation payable for each further impairment must be calculated on the basis of the permanent impairment compensation amount applying on the day on which each subsequent compensable injury occurred.