30Entitlement to compensation when person contracts another compensable disease

30 Entitlement to compensation when person contracts another compensable disease

(1)  A person who has received compensation under this Act in relation to an asbestos-related disease because he or she is entitled to it under section 29(1) is not entitled to further compensation under this Act in relation to a different asbestos-related disease.

(2)  A person who has received compensation under this Act in relation to an asbestos-related disease because he or she is entitled to it under section 29(2) is not entitled to further compensation under section 29(2) in relation to a different asbestos-related disease.

(3)  However, subsection (2) does not prevent a person making an application for compensation that relates to more than one asbestos-related disease.

(4)  Also, subsection (2) does not prevent a person receiving further compensation by way of –

(a) a lump sum payable to him or her in accordance with section 75 or 77 wholly or partly because he or she has an asbestos-related disease that is different from the disease in relation to which he or she received compensation referred to in section 29(2) ; or

(b) an increase in the amount of any weekly payments payable to him or her under this Act in accordance with section 80 because his or her degree of incapacity has increased wholly or partly because he or she has an asbestos-related disease that is different from the disease in relation to which he or she received compensation referred to in section 29(2) .