Western Australian Numbered Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 51

51 .         General limit on total income compensation

        (1)         A worker’s entitlement to income compensation for incapacity for work resulting from an injury ceases when the total of all amounts of income compensation paid to the worker for that incapacity reaches the income compensation general limit amount.

        Note for this subsection:

                The income compensation general limit amount is equal to the general maximum amount provided for by section 538(1).

        (2)         Any additional income compensation paid as ordered by an arbitrator under section 52(4) must not be counted for the purposes of this section as income compensation paid to the worker.

        Note for this section:

                Provisional payments by the employer in respect of income compensation are taken into account for the purposes of this section as income compensation paid by the employer — see section 43.