Compensation is payable only in respect of the major loss

Compensation is payable only in respect of the major loss

Where a loss of a part of the body specified in the Table of Injuries in the Third Schedule to the 1930 Act includes the loss of a lesser part, compensation is payable only in respect of the major loss, eg. an employee who has suffered a loss of a right arm is paid for that loss and is not additionally compensated for loss of fingers, the right hand, etc.  Note however that loss of the right arm is a separate injury from loss of the left arm and both losses are compensated by a lump sum.  [As a matter of policy, the limit in s 13(1) to the amount of compensation payable in respect of any one accident is not applied by Defence.]