Fire and Emergency Services Act 1998

Subject to subsection (2), an amount payable under an injury policy or under section 36ZT or 36ZU is payable to the person or persons who would be entitled under the WCIM Act to receive it if the injured volunteer were a worker and had suffered an injury compensable under the WCIM Act, and that Act (with the appropriate modifications) applies accordingly.

A spouse or de facto partner of the injured volunteer is to be taken for the purposes of this section to be wholly dependent on the injured volunteer’s earnings.

If an amount payable under an injury policy or under section 36ZT or 36ZU is payable to more than one person it is to be apportioned between those persons as the regulations provide.