11Recess claims

11 Recess claims

11 Recess claims

(cf former s 7 (1) (e))

If a worker on any day on which the worker has attended at the worker’s place of employment pursuant to the worker’s contract of service or training contract—

(a) is temporarily absent from that place on that day during any ordinary recess or authorised absence,

(b) does not during that absence voluntarily subject himself or herself to any abnormal risk of injury, and

(c) receives a personal injury during that absence,

the injury is, for the purposes of this Act, an injury arising out of or in the course of employment, and compensation is payable accordingly.

s 11: Am 2003 No 97, Sch 1 [1].