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Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3A · Application of Parts 2 and 3 to Platform Operators and Platform Workers

34H. Compensation for disease — date of accident

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Last amended by an amending law of 2024.

(1)

For the purposes of calculating the platform worker’s ADE for the computation of compensation payable by a platform operator under section 34G(1)(a), (b) or (c), the date of the accident is taken to be the earliest of the following dates:

(a)

the last day that the platform worker provides a platform service for the platform operator mentioned in section 34G(1)(a), (b) or (c), as the case may be;

(b)

the date of commencement of the incapacity of the platform worker;

(c)

the date of the platform worker’s death.

(2)

For all other purposes of this Act in relation to compensation payable under section 34G(1)(a), (b) or (c), the date of the accident is taken to be —

(a)

the earlier of —

(i)

the date of commencement of the incapacity of the platform worker; or

(ii)

the date on which a health professional certifies that, in the health professional’s opinion, the platform worker is suffering from the disease mentioned in section 34G(1); or

(b)

if there has been no previous period of incapacity — the date of the platform worker’s death.