Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Damages is damages for injury sustained by a worker in circumstances creating, independently of this Act, a legal liability in the worker's employer to pay damages to--
(a) the worker; or
(b) if the injury results in the worker's death--a dependant of the deceased worker.
(2) A reference in subsection (1) to the liability of an employer does not include a liability against which the employer is required to provide under--
(a) another Act; or
(b) a law of another State, the Commonwealth or of another country.
(3) Also, a reference in subsection (1) to the liability of an employer does not include a liability to pay damages for loss of consortium resulting from injury sustained by a worker.