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Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987
26Compensation payable for injury or death
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#### 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—
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> > (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,
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> > (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,
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> > (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,
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> > (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).
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> **s 26:** Am 1989 No 133, Sch 9 (5); 2022 No 25, Sch 2.2\[2\] \[6\].