New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SERVICES) ACT 1987 - SECT 7

7 Injuries to which Part applies

(cf defn of “injury” in former s 17B (1))

(1) This Part applies to personal injury received by a fire fighter:

(a) arising out of or in the course of fighting a bush fire, or

(b) arising out of or in the course of a relevant journey by the fire fighter in relation to a bush fire.

(2) This Part also applies to personal injury received by an official fire fighter (or a person of a prescribed class) arising out of or in the course of:

(a) the carrying out of an associated operation or work, or

(b) a relevant journey by the official fire fighter (or the person) in relation to an associated operation or work.

(3) This Part also applies to an injury being a disease which is contracted, aggravated or exacerbated or which deteriorates in the course of doing anything referred to in subsection (1) or (2) if the doing of that thing was a contributing factor.