Northern Territory Numbered Acts

RETURN TO WORK LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2015. (NO 25 OF 2015) - SECT 6

(1)     Section 4(1)(a) to (g)

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    (a)     on a working day on which the worker attends at the worker's workplace:

        (i)     is present at the workplace; or

        (ii)     having been present at the workplace, is temporarily absent on that day in the course of employment or during an ordinary recess and does not during that absence voluntarily subject himself or herself to an abnormal risk of injury; or

    (b)     is travelling by the shortest convenient route between the worker's place of residence and a workplace that is not the worker's normal or usual workplace at the request of the worker's employer; or

    (c)     is travelling by the shortest convenient route between the worker's place of residence and a workplace if:

        (i)     the worker is required by the worker's employer to work outside the worker's normal hours of work; and

        (ii)     in accordance with the terms of the worker's employment, the worker is paid, in whole or in part, for the time taken to travel to the workplace; or

    (d)     is in attendance at a trade, technical or other training school that the worker is required to attend by the terms of employment or as an apprentice, or that the worker is otherwise expected to attend by the employer; or

    (e)     is travelling by the shortest convenient route between:

        (i)     the worker's place of residence or workplace; and

        (ii)     any other place for any of the following purposes, in connection with an injury for which the worker is entitled to receive compensation:

(A)     obtaining a statement of fitness for work;

(B)     receiving medical, surgical or hospital advice, attention or treatment;

(C)     submitting to a medical examination required under this Act;

(D)     receiving a payment of compensation; or

    (f)     is in attendance at a place referred to in paragraph (e)(ii) for a purpose so referred to.

(2)     Section 4(2)

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(1)(c)(ii) or

(3)     Section 4(2A)(a), at the end

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or

(4)     Section 4(2A)(b) and (c)

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    (b)     is travelling between the worker's place of residence and a place referred to in subsection (1)(e)(ii).

(5)     Section 4(2B) and (3)

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    (3)     Despite any other provision of this Act, an injury to a worker is taken to arise out of or in the course of his or her employment if the injury is to a worker in a class of worker prescribed by regulation, subject to any limitation prescribed by regulation.

(6)     Section 4(6)(a)

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    (a)     it is prescribed by the Regulations to be a particular disease, or a disease of a particular kind, specified by the Regulations as being related to employment of a particular kind; and