AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ORDINANCE (NO. 2) 1959.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 20 of 1959

	It is the practice to make the benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance of the Territory the same as those under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act.  That Act has recently been amended to increase benefits payable under it, and this Ordinance is designed to provide the same scale of benefits for injured workmen in the Territory.  The principal changes are –

					Old			New
Payment on death			£2,350			£3,000

Weekly payments –
	Workman			£8.15. 0		£10.  0. 0
	Wife				£2.  5. 0		£  2.10. 0
	Child				£1.  0. 0		£  1.  2. 6

Payments for specified
	injuries (examples only)

	Loss of both eyes		£2,350			£3,000
	Loss of one eye		£   940			£1,200
	Loss of hearing		£1,645			£2,100
	Loss of right arm		£1,880			£2,400
	Loss of left little		£   282			£   360
		finger
	Loss of foot			£1,410			£1,800
	Loss of toe (other than	£   188			£   240
		big toe)
Maximum medical expenses		£   200			£   350