Victorian Current Acts

ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 1985 - SECT 3

The objects of this Act are—

        (a)     to reduce the incidence of accidents and diseases in the workplace;

S. 3(b) amended by No. 50/1994
s. 4.

        (b)     to make provision for the effective occupational rehabilitation of injured workers and their early return to work;

        (c)     to increase the provision of suitable employment to workers who are injured to enable their early return to work;

S. 3(d) substituted by No. 67/2013 s. 624(1), amended by No. 5/2021 s. 32.

        (d)     to ensure appropriate compensation and provisional payments under this Act is paid to injured workers in the most socially and economically appropriate manner, as expeditiously as possible;

        (e)     to ensure workers compensation costs are contained so as to minimise the burden on Victorian businesses;

        (f)     to establish incentives that are conducive to efficiency and discourage abuse;

        (g)     to enhance flexibility in the system and allow adaptation to the particular needs of disparate work situations;

        (h)     to establish and maintain a fully-funded scheme;

              (i)     in this context, to improve the health and safety of persons at work and reduce the social and economic costs to the Victorian community of accident compensation.

S. 3A inserted by No. 80/2010 s. 16.