Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
4DParticipants in training programs
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4D Participants in training programs
[Section 4D Inserted by No. 99 of 2000, s. 6, Applied:01 Jul 2001]
(1) A training program that includes the provision of workplace-based training and involves the provision of funding by the Commonwealth may be prescribed as a training program for the purposes of this section.
(2) A class of payments may be prescribed as payments that are taken to be wages in respect of a participant in a prescribed training program.
(3) A participant in a prescribed training program is taken to be a worker employed by the person providing the workplace-based training.
(4) A payment prescribed under subsection (2) as wages in respect of a participant in a prescribed training program is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be the participant's wages in the employment by the person providing the workplace-based training.
(5) This section does not apply in respect of the participation of a person, or an injury received by a person, in a training program before the program was prescribed as a training program.