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WATERFRONT WORKERS (COMPENSATION FOR ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASES) ACT 1986 - SECT 4

4 .         Application of Act

        (1)         This Act applies to a waterfront worker in respect of whom there is an entitlement to make a claim for a relevant injury under section 33 of the Compensation Act, but in respect of whom it is not known who was the employer who last employed the waterfront worker in the employment to the nature of which the relevant injury is, or was, due.

        (2)         In subsection (1) relevant injury means —

            (a)         mesothelioma; or

            (aa)         lung cancer; or

            (b)         that form of pneumoconiosis known as asbestosis.

        [Section 4 amended: No. 22 of 1987 s. 3; No. 42 of 2004 s. 170(3)-(4).]



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