Interpretation
491 Interpretation
For this chapter or a regulation made for this chapter, worker includes—
a person to whom compensation is payable under this Act or a former Act for injury, including impairment or disfigurement; and
a person to whom an amount is payable for any personal injury under an Act prescribed under a regulation.
Note—
This chapter deals with injury in terms of injury, impairment and disfigurement.
For the application of this chapter or a regulation made for this chapter in relation to an injury mentioned in section 490A(1)(b), compensation, disfigurement, impairment and injury, and any term used in an applicable provision of a former Act, have the same meaning as they have under the former Act.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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