52Definitions

52 Definitions

compensation law means this Act, the Workers Compensation Act 1958 or the Accident Compensation Act 1985 or any other workers compensation law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory of the Commonwealth;

S. 52 def. of further EPD injury inserted by No. 10/2022 s. 58(c).

further EPD injury means an increase in the degree of impairment of a worker who has on one or more occasions suffered a prior EPD injury;

S. 52 def. of further injury substituted as further hearing injury by No. 10/2022 s. 58(a).

further hearing injury means a further loss of hearing in respect of industrial deafness after a worker has on one or more occasions suffered a prior hearing injury;

S. 52 def. of prior EPD injury inserted by No. 10/2022 s. 58(c).

prior EPD injury means an eligible progressive disease for which a worker has received or become entitled to receive compensation for impairment;

S. 52 def. of prior injury substituted as prior hearing injury by No. 10/2022 s. 58(b).

prior hearing injury means industrial deafness for which the worker has received or become entitled to receive compensation for loss of hearing.

prior hearing loss means a loss of hearing for which a worker has received compensation under a compensation law for loss of hearing;

S. 53 (Heading) amended by No. 8/2024 s. 10(1).