Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 10

10 Meaning of damages

(1)
"Damages" is damages for injury sustained by a worker in circumstances creating, independently of this Act, a legal liability in the worker’s employer to pay damages to—

(a) the worker; or

(b) if the injury results in the worker’s death—a dependant of the deceased worker.

(2) A reference in subsection (1) to the liability of an employer does not include a liability against which the employer is required to provide under—

(a) another Act; or

(b) a law of another State, the Commonwealth or of another country.

(3) Also, a reference in subsection (1) to the liability of an employer does not include a liability to pay damages for loss of consortium resulting from injury sustained by a worker.