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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 116

116 .         Dust disease taken to be from certain employment

        (1)         This section applies if —

            (a)         a worker suffers an injury by a disease listed in column 1 of the Table (the injury ); and

            (b)         the employment in which the worker works at the time of suffering the injury or in which the worker worked at any time before suffering the injury involved the exposure listed for that disease in column 2 of the Table (the relevant exposure ).

        (2)         If this section applies, the injury —

            (a)         is a dust disease; and

            (b)         is taken to be an injury from the employment unless the employer proves that —

                  (i)         the injury was not suffered in the course of the employment, whether at or away from the place of employment; or

                  (ii)         the relevant exposure of the worker in the course of the employment was trivial or minimal.

        (3)         Section 6(3) does not apply in determining whether a dust disease is an injury from employment.

Table


Item

Column 1

Disease

Column 2

Exposure

1.

Pneumoconiosis or silicosis

Exposure to mineral dust harmful to the lungs, including silica and asbestos

2.

Mesothelioma

Exposure to asbestos

3.

Lung cancer

Exposure to asbestos

4.

Diffuse pleural fibrosis contracted on or after 19 September 2009

Exposure to asbestos



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