Section 43(6) of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986 (SA) requires that one and the same event, or series of events, causes both disabilities; it is not sufficient that the disabilities merely share a common material cause among otherwise disparate causes. The reasoning in [name withheld] v [name withheld] and related cases concerning s 54(5) and (7) is not decisive of the construction of s 43(6) due to differences in wording and subject matter between the provisions.
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