Queensland Numbered Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION (NATIONAL INJURY INSURANCE SCHEME) AMENDMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 12

12 Amendment of s 116 (Entitlement ends if compensated under corresponding laws)

(1) Section 116, heading, ‘Entitlement ends’—
omit, insert—
Effect on entitlement

(2) Section 116(1), from ‘a law’—
omit, insert—
another law.

(3) Section 116—
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(3) However, if the person’s entitlement under the other law relates only to paymentscorrespondingto compensation under chapter 4A, subsection (2) applies only to stop the person’s entitlement to compensation under chapter 4 or 4A.

Examples of payments to which subsection (3) may apply—

Payments under any of the following schemes—

(a) the scheme under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) ;

(b) the scheme under the National Injury Insurance Scheme (Queensland) Act 2016 ;

(c) a scheme corresponding to the scheme mentioned in paragraph (b) under a law of a place other than Queensland.