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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 12 March 2007 - onwards
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Regulation 7 Injury benefit payable to persons under the age of 16 years

(1) Subject to this article, a person under the age of 16 years shall be entitled to injury benefit in accordance with the provisions of sections 74(1) to (4).

(2) The weekly rate of injury benefit in the case of any such person shall be the amount set out, as appropriate, in column (2) of Schedule 1 and such injury benefit shall not be payable otherwise than to a parent or guardian of such person or to a person appointed by the Minister to receive the benefit on behalf of such person.

(3) In column (1) of Schedule 1, "relevant employment" means any employment in which the person under the age of 16 years was or would, but for the relevant injury, have been employed during the week in which, as the result of the relevant injury, he or she first became incapable of work.