Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The amount of compensation that the Commonwealth is liable to pay under section 242 is the amount that is 12 times:
(a) the total amount of compensation that the member was paid under the provisions mentioned in paragraph 242(1)(a) for the week before the week in which the member died; or
(b) the total amount of compensation that the member was entitled to have been paid under those provisions for that week;
(as the case requires).
(2) The amount mentioned in subsection (1) is the total amount of compensation that the Commonwealth is liable to pay under section 242, even if more than one person is entitled to compensation under that section because of the same deceased member's death.