Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Commonwealth is liable to pay an energy supplement to a person for a day if:
(a) the condition in subsection (2) is met for the day; and
(b) the person is residing in Australia on the day; and
(c) on the day the person either:
(i) is in Australia; or
(ii) is temporarily absent from Australia and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 6 weeks.
Note: Section 424L may affect the person's entitlement to the energy supplement.
Condition--receipt of compensation under this Division
(2) The condition is that either or both of the following apply:
(a) weekly compensation under this Division (except this section) either:
(i) is payable to the person for the day; or
(ii) would be payable to the person for the day apart from paragraph 398(3)(b);
(b) before the day the person received lump sum compensation under this Division and subsection 388(6) has not applied to the person before the day.
Rate of energy supplement
(3) The daily rate of the supplement is 1 / 7 of $7.10.