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MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 80

Additional amounts payable if maximum compensation paid

  (1)   This section applies to a person (the impaired person ) who has been paid, or is entitled to be paid, compensation under this Part   if the Commission has determined that the degree of impairment suffered by the person as a result of one or more service injuries or diseases constitutes at least 80 impairment points.

  (2)   The Commonwealth is liable to pay the impaired person $60,000 for each person who is both a dependant of the impaired person and an eligible young person at the later of:

  (a)   the date determined by the Commission to be the date on which the impairment suffered by the impaired person constitutes at least 80 impairment points; or

  (b)   either:

  (i)   if the person has a single service injury or disease--the date on which a claim was made under section   319 for acceptance of liability for the injury or disease; or

  (ii)   otherwise--the date on which the most recent claim was made under section   319 for acceptance of liability for one of the service injuries or diseases concerned.

Note:   The amount of $60,000 is indexed under section   404.

  (3)   The amount specified in subsection   (2) is also payable in respect of a child of the impaired person:

  (a)   who was born alive on or after the later of those times but who was conceived before that time; or

  (b)   who was adopted on or after the later of those times but in respect of whom adoption proceedings were begun before that time.



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