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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 2024 - REG 6

6 .         Conditions and limitations on prescribed diseases (Act s. 10(3)(a))

        (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.



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