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Workers Compensation Act 1951
17AVolunteers
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17A Volunteers To remove any doubt, an individual who is engaged to perform work for someone else, and who receives no payment for the work (apart from any payment for expenses), is taken not to be a worker unless the individual is taken to be a worker under any of the following sections: • section 14 (Trainees) • section 17 (Religious workers) • section 18 (Commercial voluntary workers) • section 19 (Public interest voluntary workers).