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Workers Compensation Act 1951
182BMeaning of substantive law
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182B Meaning of substantive law
(1) For this part, substantive law includes each of the following, whether
or not it would otherwise be regarded as procedural in nature:
(a) a law that establishes, modifies or extinguishes a cause of action
or a defence to a cause of action;
(b) a law prescribing the time within which an action must be
brought (including a law providing for the extension or
shortening of that time);
(c) a law that provides for the limitation or exclusion of liability or
the barring of a right of action if a proceeding on, or arbitration
of, a claim is not begun within a stated time;
(d) a law that limits the kinds of injury, loss or damage for which
damages or workers compensation may be recovered;
(e) a law that prevents the recovery of damages or compensation or
limits the amount of damages or compensation that can be
recovered;
(f) a law expressed as a presumption, or rule of evidence, that
affects substantive rights;
(g) a provision of this chapter, and any other provision of this Act
for the interpretation of this chapter;
(h) a provision of the law of another Territory or a State about
damages for work-related injuries that is prescribed for this
section by regulation.
(2) However, substantive law does not include a law prescribing rules for
choice of law.
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