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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 49A

49A .         Terms used

                In this Division —

        date of injury has the meaning given in section 49D(1);

        FES employment , in relation to a worker, means any period of firefighting employment during which the worker is engaged as a member or officer of a permanent fire brigade as defined in Fire Brigades Act 1942 section 4(1);

        firefighting employment means employment by or under the Crown in right of the State, a substantial part of the duties of which consists of firefighting duties, which —

            (a)         is covered by an industrial award or industrial agreement applicable to firefighting; or

            (b)         is prescribed to be firefighting employment for the purposes of this Act;

        hazardous fire means —

            (a)         a fire in a building; or

            (b)         a fire in a vehicle, whether designed to move under its own power or to be towed and whether or not still moveable; or

            (c)         a fire involving non-organic refuse or rubbish created by humans; or

            (d)         a fire that is prescribed to be a hazardous fire for the purposes of this Division;

        hazardous firefighting employment means —

            (a)         FES employment; and

            (b)         non-FES employment during which the worker attends hazardous fires at a rate at least equivalent to the rate of 5 hazardous fires per year;

        non-FES employment , in relation to a worker, means any period of firefighting employment which is not FES employment;

        qualifying period , for a specified disease, means the period specified in Schedule 4A column 2 opposite the specified disease;

        specified disease means a disease specified in Schedule 4A column 1.

        [Section 49A inserted: No. 21 of 2013 s. 4; amended: No. 28 of 2016 s. 9.]



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