Workers Compensation Act 1951
28Employment-related diseases
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28 Employment-related diseases Without limiting by implication the operation of section 27, if— (a) a worker has suffered, or is suffering from a disease, or the death of a worker results from a disease; and (b) the disease is a disease of a kind specified by regulation as a disease that is related to employment of a kind so specified; and (c) the worker was, at any time before symptoms of the disease first became apparent, engaged in employment of that kind; then, for this Act, unless the contrary is established, the employment in which the worker was so engaged is taken to have been a substantial contributing factor to the disease.