Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Commonwealth is liable to pay compensation for a person for a week if:
(a) the person is an eligible young person for the week or a part of the week; and
(b) the person was a dependant of a deceased member immediately before the member's death; and
(c) either:
(i) the young person was wholly or mainly dependent on the member immediately before the member's death; or
(ii) the young person would have been wholly or mainly dependent on the member for the week or the part of the week if the member had not died; and
(d) section 12 applies in respect of the member; and
(e) a claim for compensation in respect of the person has been made under section 319.
Note 1: Section 257 sets out who the compensation is payable to.
Note 2: This Part does not apply to an eligible young person who was also the wholly dependent partner of the deceased member (see section 260).
(2) The Commonwealth is only liable to pay compensation for an eligible young person who is born alive after the deceased member's death from the week in which the young person is born.