EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 1986 - SECT 27 When is compensation payable?
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 1986 - SECT 27
When is compensation payable?(1) Compensation is payable under this Part if a volunteer emergency worker suffers personal injury (including death) or loss of or damage to property belonging to the worker or in the worker's possession or control while engaged in emergency activity.
S. 27(2) inserted by No. 5/2021 s. 44.
(2) If a volunteer emergency worker who is entitled to make a claim for compensation under this Part does so in respect of a personal injury that is a mental injury, the worker is entitled to be paid provisional payments in relation to that mental injury.
S. 27(3) inserted by No. 5/2021 s. 44.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply—
(a) if the claim for compensation was made before the commencement of section 11 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Provisional Payments) Act 2021 ; or
(b) if a claim for compensation relating to the same mental injury and circumstances has previously been determined.