Workers Compensation Act 1987 No 70
Current version for 1 October 2012 to date (accessed 24 May 2013 at 00:26)
Part 5Division 1

Division 1 Preliminary

149   Definitions

(1)  In this Part:

damages includes:

(a)  any form of monetary compensation, and
(b)  without limiting paragraph (a), any amount paid under a compromise or settlement of a claim for damages (whether or not legal proceedings have been instituted),
      but does not include:
(c)  compensation under this Act, or
(d)  additional or alternative compensation to which Division 8 of Part 3 applies, or
(e)  an award of compensation or direction for compensation under Part 2 or Part 4 of the Victims Compensation Act 1996, or
(f)  a sum required or authorised to be paid under a State industrial instrument, or
(g)  any sum payable under a superannuation scheme or any life or other insurance policy, or
(h)  any amount paid in respect of costs incurred in connection with legal proceedings, or
(i)  damages of a class which is excluded by the regulations from this definition.

(2)  A reference in this Part to compensation payable under this Act includes a reference to compensation that would be payable under this Act if a claim for that compensation were duly made.

150   Reference to worker’s employer includes fellow workers etc

A reference in this Part to a worker’s employer includes a reference to:
(a)  a person who is vicariously liable for the acts of the employer, and
(b)  a person for whose acts the employer is vicariously liable.
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