Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

This section applies to a person who—

is diagnosed by a doctor for the first time as having a specified disease; and

at any time before the diagnosis, was employed as a firefighter for at least the number of years mentioned in schedule 4A, column 2 opposite the specified disease.

For the purposes of an entitlement to compensation, the specified disease is taken to be an injury.

However, this section does not apply if it is proved that—

the specified disease did not arise out of, or in the course of, the person’s employment as a firefighter; or

the person’s employment as a firefighter is not a significant contributing factor to the specified disease.