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WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT - SECT 53A

Compensation in respect of contact with bodily fluids

    (1)     Subject to this Part, where a worker:

        (a)     has come or may have come into contact with bodily fluid from another person in the course of his or her employment; and

        (b)     as a result, has a reasonable apprehension that he or she may have contracted a disease,

the worker is entitled to be paid by the worker's employer:

        (c)     the costs reasonably incurred by the worker for the purpose of obtaining medical tests in respect of that contact; and

        (d)     the worker's salary or wages in full during any absence from his or her workplace for the purpose of obtaining those medical tests.

    (2)     A payment made by an employer in pursuance of subsection (1)(c) or (d) is not to be taken to be an admission of liability by the employer in respect of a disease that is or may be attributable to the contact with bodily fluid.



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