Workers Compensation Act 1987
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Schedule 4 Firefighters’ diseases
Schedule 4 Firefighters’ diseases
| Column 1 | Column 2 | | Disease | Qualifying service period | | Primary site brain cancer | 5 years | | Primary leukaemia | 5 years | | Primary site breast cancer | 10 years | | Primary site testicular cancer | 10 years | | Primary site bladder cancer | 15 years | | Primary site kidney cancer | 15 years | | Primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 15 years | | Multiple myeloma | 15 years | | Primary site prostate cancer | 15 years | | Primary site ureter cancer | 15 years | | Primary site colorectal cancer | 15 years | | Primary site oesophageal cancer | 25 years |
sch 4: Subst 1988 No 132, Sch 1 (16). Am 1989 No 105, Sch 1. Rep 1989 No 121, Sch 1. Ins 2018 No 93, Sch 1 [2].