Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Compensation for Work Injury
15. Assessment of permanent incapacity or current incapacity
Feedback & supportFor the purposes of determining the permanent incapacity or current incapacity of an employee resulting from the employee’s work injury, an accepted medical report is evidence of the employee’s —
employee
“employee” means an individual who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer and —(a)includes every employee of the Government in a class or description declared by the President to be employees for the purposes of this Act; but(b)does not include any class of individuals specified in the Third Schedule;
permanent total incapacity or permanent partial incapacity, assessed by the health professional who made the report at any time after the date of the accident that caused the work injury; or
current total incapacity or current partial incapacity, at the time of the assessment by the health professional who made the report, assessed at the earliest opportunity but not earlier than 6 months after the date of the accident that caused the work injury.
Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to any incapacity resulting from the diseases mentioned in section 10(1).