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WORKPLACE INJURY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2013 (NO. 67 OF 2013) - SECT 47

Compensation for workers injured outside Australia

    (1)         If an employer who resides, or has a place of business, in Victoria engages a worker in Victoria and an injury is caused to or suffered by the worker outside Australia in circumstances which, had the injury occurred in Victoria, would have entitled the worker or the worker's dependants to compensation—

        (a)     the worker; or

        (b)     in the case of the death of the worker, the worker's dependants—

are entitled to compensation in accordance with this Act.

    (2)     If, outside Australia, an injury is caused to or suffered by a worker to whom this Act applies because of clause 14 of Schedule 1 in circumstances that, had the injury occurred in Victoria, would have entitled the worker or the worker's dependants to compensation—

        (a)     the worker; or

        (b)     in the case of the death of the worker, the worker's dependants—

are entitled to compensation in accordance with this Act.

    (3)     For the purposes of this Act, a worker to whom this Act applies because of clause 14 of Schedule 1 who is directed, as such a worker, to work for, or under the direction of, any other person outside Victoria (whether within or outside Australia), is deemed to continue to be a worker to whom this Act applies.

    (4)     This section does not apply in respect of an injury caused to or suffered by a worker outside Australia if the worker—

        (a)     has never resided in Australia; or

        (b)     had ceased to reside in Australia at the time the injury occurred.



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