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Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Fair Protection for Firefighters) Act 2011
No. 182, 2011
An Act to amend provisions in the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 relating to injuries sustained by firefighters, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Amendments Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Fair Protection for Firefighters) Act 2011 No. 182, 2011
An Act to amend provisions in the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 relating to injuries sustained by firefighters, and for related purposes
[Assented to 6 December 2011]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Fair Protection for Firefighters) Act 2011.
2 Commencement This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
1 After subsection 7 (7) Insert: (8) If an employee: (a) suffers a disease mentioned in the following table; and (b) before the disease was sustained, was employed as a firefighter for the qualifying period mentioned for that disease; and (c) was exposed to the hazards of a fire scene during that period; and (d) in the case of a cancer of a kind covered by item 13 of the following table—satisfies the conditions (if any) prescribed for such a cancer; the employment is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to have contributed, to a significant degree, to the contraction of the disease, unless the contrary is established. Item Disease Qualifying period 1 Primary site brain cancer 5 years 2 Primary site bladder cancer 15 years 3 Primary site kidney cancer 15 years 4 Primary non-Hodgkins lymphoma 15 years 5 Primary leukemia 5 years 6 Primary site breast cancer 10 years 7 Primary site testicular cancer 10 years 8 Multiple myeloma 15 years 9 Primary site prostate cancer 15 years 10 Primary site ureter cancer 15 years 11 Primary site colorectal cancer 15 years 12 Primary site oesophageal cancer 25 years
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