Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 669

669 Provisions about, civil liability and assessment of damages

(1) Subsection (2) applies in relation to the following provisions—

(a) provisions inserted by section 21;

(b) new section 305H(1)(f) and (3) inserted by section 22.

(2) The provisions only apply in relation to—

(a) an injury sustained by a worker after the commencement of the provisions; or

(b) an injury sustained by a worker before the commencement of the provisions if—

(i) the injury is a latent onset injury diagnosed after the commencement of the provisions; or

(ii) the injury is—

(A) an injury to which section 235A applies; and

(B) the worker first consulted a relevant health practitioner after the commencement of the provision.

(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (2) does not affect a provision that is, or to the extent that it is, only renumbered and relocated into part 8 or part 9 by the amending Act.

(4) In this section—

"relevant health practitioner" means a relevant health practitioner as defined under section 235A.