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Workers Compensation Act 1987
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#### 240 Definitions
240 Definitions
(cf IR Act, s 91)
> > (1) In this Part—
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> > Commonwealth industrial instrument means any award, workplace agreement or other agreement made under (or taken to have been made, or to have effect, under) the [Workplace Relations Act 1996](http://www.legislation.gov.au/) of the Commonwealth.
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> > industrial organisation of employees has the same meaning as it has in the [Industrial Relations Act 1996](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1996-017).
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> > reinstatement includes re-employment.
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> > State industrial instrument has the same meaning as industrial instrument has in the [Industrial Relations Act 1996](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1996-017).
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> > (2) For the purposes of this Part, an injured worker is a worker who receives an injury for which the worker is entitled to receive compensation under this Act or the [Workers’ Compensation (Dust Diseases) Act 1942](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1942-014).
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> > (3) For the purposes of this Part, a person is the employer of an injured worker only if the injury arose (either wholly or partly) out of or in the course of employment with that person.
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> Note.
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> For the purposes of comparison, a number of provisions of this Part contain bracketed notes in headings drawing attention (“cf IR Act”) to equivalent or comparable (though not necessarily identical) provisions of the [Industrial Relations Act 1996](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1996-017) (as in force immediately before the commencement of this Part).
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> **ss 240–244:** Rep 1989 No 119, Sch 1 (28). Ins 2006 No 97, Sch 3 \[1\].