Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) a person receives 2 or more lump sum payments in relation to the same event that gave rise to the entitlement of the person to compensation (the multiple payments ); and
(b) at least one of the multiple payments is made wholly or partly in respect of lost earnings or lost capacity to earn;
the following paragraphs have effect for the purposes of this Act:
(c) the person is taken to have received one lump sum compensation payment (the single payment ) of an amount equal to the sum of the multiple payments;
(d) the single payment is taken to have been received by the person:
(i) on the day on which he or she received the last of the multiple payments; or
(ii) if the multiple payments were all received on the same day--on that day.
(2) A payment is not a lump sum payment for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) if it relates exclusively to arrears of periodic compensation.