Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss) Amendment Order 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Motor Accidents Compensation

(Determination of Loss) Amendment Order

2018

under the

Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999

I, the Minister for Finance, Services and Property, in pursuance of section 146 of the Motor

Accidents Compensation Act 1999, make the following Order.

Dated, this 27th day of September 2018.

VICTOR DOMINELLO, MP

Minister for Finance, Services and Property

Explanatory note

The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2018, the maximum amount that may be awarded for damages:

(a)	for past or future economic loss in relation to persons who have been injured or killed as a
consequence of a motor accident to which the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 (the Act) applies, and
(b)	for non-economic loss to persons who have been injured as a consequence of a motor accident to which the Act applies.

Section 146 of the Act requires the Minister to declare the amounts on or before 1 October each year. The amounts are indexed by reference to movements in average weekly earnings.

An amount specified in this Order applies to the exclusion of the corresponding amount specified in section 125 or 134 of the Act.

Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss) Amendment Order 2018 [NSW]

Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss)

Amendment Order 2018

under the

Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss)
Amendment Order 2018.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on 1 October 2018 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss) Order 2009

(1) Clause 3 Section 125: Damages for past or future economic loss—maximum for
loss of earning etc

Insert at the end of the Table to the clause:

1 October 2018 $5,008

(2)	Clause 4 Section 134: Maximum amount of damages for non-economic loss
Insert at the end of the Table to the clause:
1 October 2018 $546,000