548Reciprocal agreements—compensation

548 Reciprocal agreements—compensation

(1) The Authority may enter into an agreement with a person or body constituted by or under the law of a corresponding State relating to the payment of compensation to a worker or dependants of a worker in respect of an injury arising out of or in the course of, or due to the nature of, the worker's employment in Victoria or in the corresponding State.

(2) An agreement under subsection (1) may provide—

(a) that the provisions of this Act or the Accident Compensation Act 1985 apply and the provisions of the law of the corresponding State do not apply in respect of compensation if the injury occurred in Victoria and the person who was injured or died was resident in the corresponding State; and

(b) that the provisions of the law of the corresponding State apply and the provisions of this Act or the Accident Compensation Act 1985 do not apply in respect of compensation if the injury occurred in the corresponding State and the person who was injured or died was resident in Victoria.

(3) In this section, corresponding State means another State or a Territory in which there is in force a law the provisions of which generally correspond to the provisions of this Act, being a State or Territory declared by Order of the Governor in Council published in the Government Gazette to be a corresponding State for the purposes of this section.