Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3A · Application of Parts 2 and 3 to Platform Operators and Platform Workers
34F. Certain accidents deemed to be in course of provision of platform service
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An accident is deemed to arise out of and in the course of a platform worker’s provision of a platform service for a platform operator if the accident happens to the platform worker while he or she —
is at work providing the platform service; and
is taking steps, on an actual or supposed emergency —
to rescue or protect any person who is, or is thought to be or possibly to be, injured or imperilled; or
to avert or minimise damage to or loss of property.
Despite an accident happening to the platform worker while the platform worker is acting in contravention of any written law or other regulations applicable to the provision of a platform service for, or of any instructions given by or on behalf of, the platform operator, the accident is deemed to arise out of and in the course of the platform worker’s provision of the platform service for the platform operator if —
the accident would have been taken to have arisen out of and in the course of the platform worker’s provision of the platform service for the platform operator, had the platform worker not acted in that manner; and
that act was done for the purposes and in connection with the provision of the platform service for the platform operator.