24Injuries to which this Part applies

24 Injuries to which this Part applies

24 Injuries to which this Part applies

(cf defn of “injury” in former s 17J)

(1) This Part applies to personal injury received by an emergency service worker or a rescue association worker—

(a) arising out of or in the course of carrying out an authorised activity, or

(b) arising out of or in the course of a relevant journey by the worker in relation to an authorised activity.

(2) This Part also applies to an injury being a disease which is contracted, aggravated, accelerated, exacerbated or which deteriorates in the course of doing anything referred to in subsection (1) if the doing of that thing was a contributing factor.

s 24: Am 1996 No 120, Sch 2.8 [2].