Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 28

Without limiting by implication the operation of section 27, if—

        (a)     a worker has suffered, or is suffering from a disease, or the death of a worker results from a disease; and

        (b)     the disease is a disease of a kind specified by regulation as a disease that is related to employment of a kind so specified; and

        (c)     the worker was, at any time before symptoms of the disease first became apparent, engaged in employment of that kind;

then, for this Act, unless the contrary is established, the employment in which the worker was so engaged is taken to have been a contributing factor to the disease.