Workers Compensation Act 1958
1AApplication of Act 2
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1A Application of Act 2
1AA Compensation for death of worker 2
1B Construction of references 3
2 Repeals and savings 3
2A Transitional—1975 amendments—compensation 5
2B Transitional—1975 amendments—insurance 7
2C Transitional—1975 amendments—recompense etc. 8
2D Transitional—1979 amendments—compensation 11
2E Transitional—1979 amendments—insurance 13
2F Transitional—1979 amendments—recompense to employer 14
2G Transitional—1979 amendments—recompense to insurer 15
2H Transitional—1979 amendments—payments into the Fund 16
2J Transitional—1979 amendments—determinations by the County Court 17
2K Transitional—1975 and 1979 amendments—operation of section 72(1)(a) 19
2L Transitional—definitions 19
3 Definitions 20
3A Secretaries of co-operative societies 38
4 Workers employed by the Crown etc. 39
Part I—Employers' liability 42
Division 1—Liability to pay compensation 42
5 Employers' liability 42
5A Nominal defendant 42
5AA Payments by employer not admission of liability 44
6 Injury due to serious and wilful misconduct 44
7 Victorian workers injured outside Victoria 45
7A Public servants injured outside Victoria 45
7B Entitlement to compensation under the law of another State etc. 46
8 Injury in course of employment 50
Division 2—Compensation generally and for specified injuries 55
9 Compensation for death and incapacity for work 55
10 Worker ceasing to reside in Australia 90
11 Compensation for specified injuries 91
Division 3—Compensation for industrial diseases 95
12 Disease due to employment 95
12A Certificate by a registered medical practitioner 96
13 False representation 97
14 From which employer compensation recoverable 97
15 Notice of death or disablement 98
16 Nominal defendant 98
17 Production of section 12 certificate 100
18 Calculation of compensation 100
19 References to medical referee 100
19A Reference under section 19 101
19B Procedure relating to references under section 19 102
20 Date of disablement 103
21 Proclamation of diseases 104
22 Proclaimed diseases deemed to be due to employment 104