Schedule 1
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Reprinted as at 1 February 2011
Part 2—continued 38
(1)
(2)
Weekly earnings if earner had earnings as self-employed person immediately before incapacity commenced: calculations The weekly earnings of an earner who had earnings as a self-employed person immediately before the incapacity commenced are,— (a) for the first 4 weeks after the first week of incapacity, the greater of the relevant amount calculated under subclause (2) or the amount under subclause (3): (b) for any period of incapacity after the 4 weeks referred to in paragraph (a), the relevant amount calculated under subclause (2). The amounts that apply under this subclause are,— (a) for claimants who first commenced receiving earnings as self-employed persons in the tax year in which the incapacity commenced, the amount calculated using the following formula:
(b)
where— a is the total of the claimant’s earnings as an employee in the 52 weeks immediately before the incapacity commenced b is the number of full or part weeks during which the claimant earned those earnings as an employee: for claimants for whom the relevant year was the first year during which they received earnings as a self-employed person, the amount calculated using the following formula:
where— a is the claimant’s total earnings as an employee in the 52 weeks immediately before his or her incapacity commenced 332