Definitions
95 Definitions
In this Part, other than Division 5—
A.M.A Guides has the same meaning as it has in the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 as modified by that Act and the Regulations made under that Act;
compensation includes compensation for losses referred to in regulation 122(1) but does not include damages for personal injury;
current work capacity, in relation to a member, means a present inability arising from an injury such that the member is not able to return to the member's pre-injury employment but is able to return to work in suitable employment;
family member, in relation to a person, means—
(a) a spouse, domestic partner, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, step-father, step-mother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, half‑brother, half-sister, step-brother or step-sister of that person; or
any person who stands in the place of a parent in relation to that person;
medical and like expenses means—
reasonable costs of the medical, hospital, nursing, personal and household, rehabilitation and ambulance services received by a member because of a personal injury; and
if death results from the personal injury, the reasonable costs incurred of family counselling services provided to—
the family members of the deceased member; and
persons who at the time of the death of the member were wholly, mainly or partly dependent on the earnings of the deceased member; and
persons who would, but for the incapacity of a member due to the injury, have been wholly, mainly or partly dependent on the earnings of the deceased member—
by a medical practitioner or registered psychologist and the reasonable costs of burial or cremation of the member;
medical practitioner means—
a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the medical profession (other than as a student); and
in relation to anything done for the purposes of these Regulations within Australia but outside Victoria, a medical practitioner who is lawfully qualified in that place to do that thing;
member means a volunteer officer, a member of a brigade, an officer or member of a forestry industry brigade or a person not formally enrolled as a member of a brigade but who has applied for membership and is performing the duties performed by a member of a brigade;
no current work capacity, in relation to a member, means a present inability arising from an injury such that the member is not able to return to work, either in the member's pre-injury employment or in other suitable employment;
notional current weekly earnings, in relation to a member, means the weekly earnings the Authority determines the member could earn from time to time (including, but not limited to, the amount of any current weekly earnings) in employment, being the member's employment before the injury or other suitable employment that the Authority determines the member is capable of performing despite the injury;
personal effects does not include money;
personal injury means physical or mental injury and includes a disease or death;
registered psychologist means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the psychology profession (other than as a student);
senior officer means the Chief Officer, an officer in charge of a brigade or group of brigades or an officer authorised by the Chief Officer to be a senior officer for the purposes of this Division;
serious injury means an injury to a member in respect of which the member's degree of impairment is 30% or more when assessed in accordance with—
the A.M.A Guides; or
The Guide to the Evaluation of Psychiatric Impairment for Clinicians as amended, varied or substituted from time to time in accordance with section 67 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013;
service as a member has the meaning given by regulation 96;
suitable employment has the meaning given by regulation 97;
transport accident has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Transport Accident Act 1986;
Victorian WorkCover Authority has the same meaning as Authority has in section 3 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013.
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