5Application-general

5 Application-general

This instrument applies in relation to a disease specified in Schedule 1 that an employee sustains on or after the day this instrument commences.

5A Application–firefighters

(1) This instrument applies in relation to a disease specified in Schedule 3 that an employee sustains in relation to:

(a) the employee’s service as a firefighter; or

(b) the employee’s participation in a firefighter training course; or

(c) the employee’s role as an instructor of a firefighter training course;

at the RAAF Base Point Cook between 1 January 1957 and 31 December 1986.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), it does not matter whether the disease was sustained by the employee during the period mentioned in that subsection or at a later time.