26Compensation payable for injury or death

26 Compensation payable for injury or death

26 Compensation payable for injury or death

(cf former s 17O)

An emergency service worker or a rescue association worker who has received an injury (and, in the case of the death of the worker, the worker’s dependants) shall be entitled to receive compensation as follows—

(a) where death results from the injury—the compensation payments prescribed by the Principal Act, sections 25(1)(a) and (b) and (1A), 26 and 28,

(b) where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury—the weekly payments of compensation prescribed by Division 2 of Part 3 of the Principal Act,

(c) where medical or related treatment, hospital treatment, occupational rehabilitation service or ambulance service becomes necessary as a result of the injury—the benefits prescribed by Division 3 of Part 3 of the Principal Act,

(d) where the worker receives an injury mentioned in Division 4 of Part 3 of the Principal Act—the compensation prescribed by that Division (including compensation for any pain and suffering resulting from that injury).

s 26: Am 1989 No 133, Sch 9 (5); 2022 No 25, Sch 2.2[2] [6].