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Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Protecting Firefighters) Amendment Bill 2015
Queensland
Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Protecting Firefighters) Amendment Bill 2015
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Chapter 32 Transitional and declaratory provision for Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Protecting Firefighters) Amendment Act 2015
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A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 for particular purposes
Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Protecting Firefighters) Amendment Bill 2015 [s 4]
The Parliament of Queensland enacts—
Clause 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Protecting Firefighters) Amendment Act 2015.
Clause 2 Act amended
This Act amends the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.
Clause 3 Insertion of new s 32A Chapter 1, part 4, division 6, subdivision 2— insert—
32A Special provision about diseases contracted by firefighters
(1) _ This section applies if—
(a) a person contracts a disease mentioned in column 1 of the following table—
(i) while employed as a firefighter; or
(ii) at any time after the person stops being employed as a firefighter; and
(b) at any time before contracting the disease, the person was employed as a firefighter for at least the number of years mentioned in column 2 of the table, whether in 1 period or 2 or more periods.
Column 1 Column 2
Disease Minimum number of years as firefighter
primary site brain cancer 5 years primary site bladder cancer 15 years
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