Victorian Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE INJURY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2013 (NO. 67 OF 2013) - SECT 60

    (1)     Despite section 59 and subject to subsection (2), if a worker sustains industrial deafness, the injury is deemed to have been sustained by the worker on the last day on which the worker was—

        (a)     performing duties; or

        (b)     exposed to conditions—

by reason of which the injury was due to the nature of the worker's employment or arose out of or in the course of the worker's employment.

    (2)     Despite section 59, if a worker sustains industrial deafness and on the day on which the worker gives, serves or lodges a claim for compensation in respect of the injury, the worker is still—

        (a)     performing duties; or

        (b)     exposed to conditions—

by reason of which the injury is due to the nature of the worker's employment or arises out of or in the course of employment, the injury is deemed to have been sustained on that day.