Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3A · Application of Parts 2 and 3 to Platform Operators and Platform Workers
34L. Assessment of permanent incapacity or current incapacity of platform worker
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For the purposes of determining the permanent incapacity or current incapacity of a platform worker resulting from the platform worker’s work injury, an accepted medical report is evidence of the platform worker’s —
work injury
“work injury”, in relation to an individual, means personal injury that is caused to the individual by an accident arising out of and in the course of the individual’s employment;
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 34G(1).