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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 44

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 44

44 .         Diseases in Sch. 3 deemed due to employment in process in Sch. 3

                If the worker at or immediately before the date on which the worker was rendered less able to earn full wages was employed in any process mentioned in column 2 of Schedule 3 and produces a certificate from a medical practitioner that the disease contracted is the disease or one of the diseases in column 1 set opposite the description of the process, such disease shall be deemed to have been due to the nature of the employment, unless the employer proves the contrary.

        [Section 44 amended: No. 42 of 2004 s. 33.]