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Serial 78
Motor
Accidents (Compensation) Amendment Bill 2019
Ms
Manison
A Bill for an Act to amend the Motor Accidents (Compensation) Act 1979
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
MOTOR ACCIDENTS (COMPENSATION) AMENDMENT ACT 2019
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Act No. [ ] of 2019
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Table of provisions
Division 4 Motor Accidents (Compensation) Amendment Act 2019
48 Definition
49 Application
of section 13
NORTHERN
TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2019
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An Act to amend the Motor Accidents (Compensation) Act 1979
[Assented to [ ] 2019]
[Introduced [ ] 2019]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Motor Accidents (Compensation) Amendment Act 2019.
This Act commences on the day after the day on which the Administrator's assent to this Act is declared.
This Act amends the Motor Accidents (Compensation) Act 1979.
4 Section 13 amended (Compensation for loss of earning capacity)
(1) Section 13(5)(a)
omit, insert
(a) a person stops being entitled to benefits under this section:
(i) if the day of the accident is more than 2 years before the day the person reaches pension age – on the day the person reaches pension age; or
(ii) otherwise – 104 weeks after the day of the accident;
(2) After section 13(5)
insert
(5A) Despite subsection (1), if the person mentioned in that subsection is pension age or older on the day of the accident, compensation is not payable under this section unless the Commission is satisfied that, on the day of the accident, the person was someone who earns income from personal exertion.
After section 47
insert
Division 4 Motor Accidents (Compensation) Amendment Act 2019
In this Division:
commencement means the day on which section 4 of the Motor Accidents (Compensation) Amendment Act 2019 commences.
(1) Section 13, as amended by the Motor Accidents (Compensation) Amendment Act 2019, applies only in relation to a motor accident that happens after the commencement.
(2) Section 13, as in force before the commencement, continues to apply in relation to a motor accident that happened before the commencement.
This Act is repealed on the day after it commences.
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