WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SERVICES) ACT 1987 - SECT 26 Compensation payable for injury or death

WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SERVICES) ACT 1987 - SECT 26

26 Compensation payable for injury or death

(cf former s 17O)

An emergency service worker or a rescue association worker who has received an injury (and, in the case of the death of the worker, the worker's dependants) shall be entitled to receive compensation as follows:

(a) where death results from the injury--the compensation payments prescribed by paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 25 (1) of the Principal Act,

(b) where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury--the weekly payments of compensation prescribed by Division 2 of Part 3 of the Principal Act,

(c) where medical or related treatment, hospital treatment, occupational rehabilitation service or ambulance service becomes necessary as a result of the injury--the benefits prescribed by Division 3 of Part 3 of the Principal Act,

(d) where the worker receives an injury mentioned in the Table to Division 4 of Part 3 of the Principal Act--the compensation prescribed by that Division (including compensation for any pain and suffering resulting from that injury).