Social Security Act 1975

Injury benefit

56 Injury benefit

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an employed earner shall be entitled to injury benefit in respect of any day during the injury benefit period on which, as the result of the relevant injury, he is incapable of work.

(2) In this Chapter " work ", in the contexts " incapable of work" and " incapacity for work", means work which the person in question can reasonably be expected to do.

(3) Injury benefit shall be an allowance payable at the appropriate weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part V, paragraph 1; and the amount payable for any day of incapacity shall be 1 /6th of the weekly rate.

(4) " The injury benefit period " means, in relation to an accident, the period of 156 days (disregarding Sundays) beginning with the day of the accident, or the part of that period for which, under section 57(4) below, disablement benefit in respect of the accident is not available to the earner.

(5) There is no entitlement to injury benefit in respect of any day during the injury benefit period—

(a) unless that day forms part of a period of interruption of employment; or

(b) where that day is one of the first 3 days of a period of interruption of employment.

(6) Section 17(1) of this Act (days for which benefit is payable), and any regulations made under section 17(1) or (2), have effect for the purposes of injury benefit as for those of unemployment benefit or sickness benefit.

(7) A person who has not attained school-leaving age shall not be entitled to injury benefit, except as may be provided by regulations.