Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 1982 - REG 17AE

17AE .         Amount prescribed for funeral expenses (clause 17(2))

        (1)         For the purposes of the Act Schedule 1 clause 17(2), the amount prescribed for funeral expenses is —

            (a)         for the period up to and including 30 June 2007, $7 547; and

            (b)         for a financial year commencing on or after 1 July 2007, in accordance with section 5A of the Act, the amount obtained by —

                  (i)         varying the amount applying at the end of the preceding financial year by the percentage by which the March CPI varies from the previous March CPI; and

                  (ii)         rounding the amount to the nearest whole number of cents (with an amount that is .5 of a cent being rounded off to the next highest whole number of cents).

        (2)         In this regulation —

        March CPI , for a financial year, means the index number for the quarter ending on the last 31 March before the financial year commences, as shown in the Consumer Price Index Numbers (All Groups Index) for Perth published by the Commonwealth Statistician under the Commonwealth Census and Statistics Act 1905 .

        [Regulation 17AE inserted in Gazette 4 Aug 2006 p. 2855‑6.]