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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 438

438 .         Terms used

                In this Division —

        State’s legislation about damages for an injury from employment means —

            (a)         for this State — Division 2;

            (b)         for another State — any provision of a law of that State that is declared by the regulations to be the State’s legislation about damages for an injury from employment;

        substantive law does not include a law prescribing rules for choice of law but includes the following —

            (a)         a law that establishes, modifies or extinguishes a cause of action or a defence to a cause of action;

            (b)         a law prescribing the period within which an action must be brought (including a law providing for the extension or abridgment of that period);

            (c)         a law that provides for the limitation or exclusion of liability or the barring of a right of action if a proceeding on, or arbitration of, a claim is not commenced within a particular time limit;

            (d)         a law that limits the kinds of injury, loss or damage for which damages or compensation may be recovered;

            (e)         a law that precludes the recovery of damages or compensation or limits the amount of damages or compensation that can be recovered;

            (f)         a law expressed as a presumption, or rule of evidence, that affects substantive rights;

            (g)         a provision of a State’s legislation about damages for an injury from employment, whether or not it would be otherwise regarded as procedural in nature.



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