Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

(2A)  For the purposes of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 , a volunteer emergency management worker –

(a) who is registered in Tasmania with an organisation that participates in emergency management, or rescue and retrieval operations, in Tasmania; and

(b) who, in his or her capacity within that organisation, participates in emergency management, or a rescue and retrieval operation, outside Tasmania –

is taken to be employed in emergency management, or rescue and retrieval operations, in connection with Tasmania, while so participating, if the Secretary of the department responsible in relation to the administration of this Act has agreed to such participation.