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Workers Compensation Act 1951
6Meaning of totally incapacitated
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6 Meaning of totally incapacitated For this Act, an injured worker is totally incapacitated for work if— (a) there is no suitable paid employment reasonably available to the worker that the worker can do because of a functional impairment caused by the injury; or (b) the worker is taken, or declared, to be totally incapacitated under section 35 (When is a worker taken to be totally incapacitated?).