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Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
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624 Transitional provision—Local Government Legislation Amendment (Rating and Other Matters) Act 2022 731
625 Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Act 2024 731
626 Transitional provisions—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025—administration of Authority 733
627 Transitional provisions—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025—sections 214A and 545 734
628 Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025—section 224 734
629 Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2025—section 241 735
Schedules 737
Schedule 1—Further interpretative provisions 737
Schedule 2—Pre-injury average weekly earnings 769
Schedule 3—Modification to degrees of impairment for the purposes of Division 5 of Part 5 774
Schedule 4—No Disadvantage—Compensation Table 776
Schedule 5—Table to be used to determine settlement amounts under section 246 780
Schedule 6—Self-insurers—Pre-application eligibility fee 781
Schedule 7—Application fee for approval as self‑insurer 782
Schedule 8—Persons to whom document may be produced or information communicated or divulged 785
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Endnotes 788
1 General information 788
2 Table of Amendments 790
3 Explanatory details 797
**Version No.** **052**
**Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013**
**No. 67 of 2013**
Version incorporating amendments as at
**The Parliament of Victoria enacts:**
Part 1—Preliminary
Division 1—Introductory
1 Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to—
(a) simplify the provisions applying to the rehabilitation of injured workers and compensation in relation to injuries or deaths arising out of accidents and diseases in the workplace on or after 1 July 2014; and
(b) streamline the provisions of the **Accident Compensation Act 1985** which continue to apply in respect of injuries or deaths arising out of accidents and diseases in the workplace before 1 July 2014; and
(c) provide a single gateway for claims for compensation whether under this Act or the **Accident Compensation Act 1985**; and
(d) provide for the registration of employers and the payment of WorkCover premiums; and
(e) repeal the **Accident Compensation (WorkCover Insurance) Act 1993**; and
(f) make consequential amendments to the **Accident Compensation Act 1985**, the **Workers Compensation Act 1958** and certain other Acts.