Motor Accidents (Determination of Non-Economic Loss) Amendment Order 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Motor Accidents (Determination of

Non-Economic Loss) Amendment Order

2015

under the

Motor Accidents Act 1988

I, the Minister for Finance, Services and Property, in pursuance of section 80 of the Motor

Accidents Act 1988, make the following Order.

Dated, this 29th day of September 2015.

DOMINIC PERROTTET, MP

Minister for Finance, Services and Property

Explanatory note
The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2015, the maximum amounts that may be awarded for damages for non-economic loss to persons who have been injured as a consequence of a motor accident.

Section 80 of the Motor Accidents Act 1988 requires the Minister to declare the amounts on or before 1 October in 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 79 or 79A of the Motor Accidents Act 1988.

Motor Accidents (Determination of Non-Economic Loss)

Amendment Order 2015

under the

Motor Accidents Act 1988

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Motor Accidents (Determination of Non-Economic Loss)
Amendment Order 2015.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on 1 October 2015 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Motor Accidents (Determination
of Non-Economic Loss) Order 2009

[1]      Clause 3 Section 79: Determination of non-economic loss—accidents occurring before midnight on 26.9.95

Insert at the end of the Table to clause 3 (1) in Columns 1 and 2, respectively:

1 October 2015 $511,000

[2]      Clause 3 (2)

Insert at the end of the Table to the subclause in Columns 1 and 2, respectively:

1 October 2015 $40,500

[3]      Clause 3 (3)

Insert at the end of the Table to the subclause in Columns 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively:

1 October 2015 $40,500 $155,500 $112,500

[4]      Clause 4 Section 79A: Determination of non-economic loss—accidents occurring after midnight on 26.9.95

Insert at the end of the Table to the clause in Columns 1 and 2, respectively:

1 October 2015 $511,000