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Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
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58 Excluded deafness
(1) Impairment from industrial deafness, or a proportion of impairment from industrial deafness, that has occurred in circumstances that do not create any liability to pay compensation under this Act must be excluded from the assessment of deafness for the purposes of assessing the degree of impairment as at the time the assessment is made.
(2) Industrial deafness, or a proportion of industrial deafness, that has occurred in circumstances that do not create any liability to pay compensation under this Act must be excluded from the assessment of deafness for the purposes of calculating compensation under this Act.