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Workers Compensation Act 1951
4Meaning of injury
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4 Meaning of injury
injury means a physical or mental injury (including stress), and
includes aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a pre-existing
injury.
mental injury (including stress) does not include a mental injury
(including stress) completely or mostly caused by reasonable action
taken, or proposed to be taken, by or on behalf of an employer in
relation to the transfer, demotion, promotion, performance appraisal,
discipline, retrenchment or dismissal of a worker or the provision of
an employment benefit to a worker.