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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?).