WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 31
Meaning of event
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 31
Meaning of event
31 Meaning of event
(1) An
"event" is anything that results in injury, including a latent onset injury,
to a worker.
(2) An
"event" includes continuous or repeated exposure to substantially the same
conditions that results in an injury to a worker.
(3) A worker may sustain 1
or multiple injuries as a result of an event whether the injury happens or
injuries happen immediately or over a period.
(4) If multiple injuries result
from an event, they are taken to have happened in 1 event.
