Return to Work Act 1986
3AInjury
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3A Injury (1) An injury, in relation to a worker, is a physical or mental injury arising out of or in the course of the worker's employment and includes: (a) a disease; and (b) the aggravation, acceleration, exacerbation, recurrence or deterioration of a pre-existing injury or disease. (2) Despite any other provision of this Act, a mental injury is not considered to be an injury for this Act if it is caused wholly or primarily by one or more of the following: (a) management action taken on reasonable grounds and in a reasonable manner by or on behalf of the worker's employer; (b) a decision of the worker's employer, on reasonable grounds, to take, or not to take, any management action; (c) any expectation by the worker that any management action would, or would not, be taken or any decision made to take, or not to take, any management action.