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15         For injuries suffered by employees after 1 October 2001, subsection 24(7A) of the SRC Act provides, in effect, that, if the injury results in a permanent impairment that is a hearing loss, the 10% threshold does not apply. In those cases:
      a)      subsection 24(7A) of the SRC Act provides that compensation is not payable to the employee under section 24 if the relevant authority determines the binaural hearing loss suffered by the employee to be less than 5%;
      b)      Section 7.1 (Hearing loss) of this Guide provides that the percentage of binaural hearing loss is converted to a WPI rating by dividing the percentage of binaural hearing loss by 2; and
      c)       consequently, the threshold for compensation under section 24 of the SRC Act for an injury resulting in a permanent impairment that is a hearing loss is 2.5% WPI under this Guide.

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