Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Act 2024
625 Transitional provision—Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Act 2024
The definition of mental injury as inserted by Division 1 of Part 2 of the amending Act and sections 39 and 40, as amended by that Division of that Act, apply to claims made in respect of injuries that occur on or after the date of commencement of Division 1 of Part 2 of the amending Act.
Sections 163, 165 and 175, as in force immediately before the commencement of Division 2 of Part 2 of the amending Act, continue to apply to a worker who immediately before the date of commencement of that Division of the amending Act is receiving weekly payments despite the expiry of the second entitlement period.
Section 301C, as in force immediately before the commencement of Division 4 of Part 2 of the amending Act, continues to apply to a dispute that relates to an injury that occurs before the date of commencement of that Division of the amending Act.
In this section—
amending Act means the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Act 2024.
Pt 14 (Headings and ss 624–650) amended by No. 44/2014 ss 21–23, 24(26)–(36), repealed by No. 67/2013 s. 650, new Pt 14 (Heading and ss 623N, 623O) inserted by No. 11/2020 s. 60, amended by No. 27/2020 ss 44, 45, repealed by No. 67/2013 s. 623O (as amended by No. 27/2020 s. 45).
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New s. 626 inserted by No. 27/2025 s. 34.
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