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ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 1985 - SECT 5 Definitions

ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 1985 - SECT 5

Definitions

    (1)     In this Act—

"appointed day "means four o'clock in the afternoon of the day before the proclaimed day;

first entitlement period has the meaning given by section 91E ;

"personal and household service" means the provision of one or more of the following of a kind or type, and by a person, approved by the Authority—

        (a)     attendant care;

        (b)     counselling;

        (c)     household help;

        (d)     transportation costs;

        (e)     at the request of a medical practitioner, an aid, assistance, appliance, apparatus or service, other than a medical service, hospital service or nursing service—

and includes a rehabilitation service provided under this Act as in force before the commencement of section 80 of the Accident Compensation (WorkCover Insurance) Act 1993 ;

S. 5(1) def. of police officer inserted by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch item 2.1).

police officer has the same meaning as in the Victoria Police Act 2013 ;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 ;

"proclaimed day" means the day fixed under section 2(2);

second entitlement period has the meaning given by section 91E ;

"weekly payment "means compensation in the form of a weekly payment under Division 2 of Part IV.

    (2)     Unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter—

        (a)     words and expressions defined in section 3 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 have the same meaning in this Act as they have in that Act; and

        (b)     section 4(1) and (2) and Schedule 1 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 have effect as if enacted in this Act.

Pt 1 Div. 2 (Heading) inserted by No. 80/2010 s. 21.

Division 2—Pre-injury average weekly earnings and current weekly earnings

S. 5A inserted by No. 64/1989 s. 6, amended by Nos 50/1994 s. 8, 7/1996 s. 49(a), 107/1997 ss 8(3),

30(2)–(4), 26/2000 s. 4(1)(2), 95/2003 s. 5, 102/2004 s. 38(1)(a)(b), 41/2006 s. 3, 60/2007 s. 24, 9/2010 ss 4–8, substituted by No. 80/2010 s. 21.