Victorian Current Acts

WORKPLACE INJURY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2013 - SECT 52

In this Division—

"compensation law" means this Act, the Workers Compensation Act 1958 or the Accident Compensation Act 1985 or any other workers compensation law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory of the Commonwealth;

S. 52 def. of further EPD injury inserted by No. 10/2022 s. 58(c).

"further EPD injury" means an increase in the degree of impairment of a worker who has on one or more occasions suffered a prior EPD injury;

S. 52 def. of further injury substituted as further hearing injury by No. 10/2022 s. 58(a).

"further hearing injury" means a further loss of hearing in respect of industrial deafness after a worker has on one or more occasions suffered a prior hearing injury;

S. 52 def. of prior EPD injury inserted by No. 10/2022 s. 58(c).

"prior EPD injury" means an eligible progressive disease for which a worker has received or become entitled to receive compensation for impairment;

S. 52 def. of prior injury substituted as prior hearing injury by No. 10/2022 s. 58(b).

"prior hearing injury" means industrial deafness for which the worker has received or become entitled to receive compensation for loss of hearing.

"prior hearing loss" means a loss of hearing for which a worker has received compensation under a compensation law for loss of hearing;

S. 53 (Heading) amended by No. 8/2024 s. 10(1).