(1) Employment for a
period (a qualifying period ) specified in column 2 of the Table in
Schedule 1 is a condition on the operation of section 10 of the Act.
(2) Section 10 of
the Act does not apply to an injury by a prescribed disease unless any
qualifying period included as a condition for the prescribed employment for
that prescribed disease is satisfied.
(3) A qualifying
period is satisfied if, on the day on which the injury is taken, under
regulation 7, to have been suffered, the worker (whether or not still in
the prescribed employment) has completed a period of the prescribed employment
of, or 2 or more periods of prescribed employment in aggregate amounting
to, the qualifying period for the disease.