Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186:section:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 1/9)
Character Range: 13475–16154

4  Interpretation
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
action for non‑economic loss means any action (whether or not it involves the formal institution of a proceeding) to recover an amount for damages for non‑economic loss sustained by an employee as a result of an injury suffered by that employee:
 (a) that is taken by the employee against the employer, whether it is the Commonwealth, a Commonwealth authority or a licensed corporation, or against another employee; and
 (b) that follows an election made by the first‑mentioned employee under subsection 45(1).
aggravation includes acceleration or recurrence.
ailment means any physical or mental ailment, disorder, defect or morbid condition (whether of sudden onset or gradual development).
approved Guide means:
 (a) the document, prepared by the MRCC in accordance with section 28 under the title "Guide to the Assessment of the Degree of Permanent Impairment", that has been approved by the Minister and is for the time being in force; and
 (b) if an instrument varying the document has been approved by the Minister—that document as so varied.
approved program provider has the same meaning as in section 41 of the MRCA.
attendant care services, in relation to an employee, means services (other than household services, medical or surgical services or nursing care) that are required for the essential and regular personal care of the employee.
catastrophic injury means an injury, where the conditions specified in the legislative rules are satisfied.
child: without limiting who is a child of a person for the purposes of this Act, someone is the child of a person if he or she is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.
claim means a claim under Part V.
claimant, in relation to a time after the death of a claimant, has the meaning given in subsection (11).
Comcare means the body corporate established by section 68 of the SRC Act.
Commonwealth authority means:
 (a) a body corporate that is incorporated for a public purpose by a law of the Commonwealth, other than a body declared by the Minister, by legislative instrument, to be a body corporate to which this Act does not apply; or
 (b) a body corporate that is incorporated for a public purpose by a law of a Territory (other than a law of the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory) and is declared by the Minister, by legislative instrument, to be a body corporate to which this Act applies; or
 (c) a body corporate:
 (i) that is incorporated under a law of the Commonwealth or a law in force in a State or Territory;
 (ii) in which:
 (A) the Commonwealth has a controlling or substantial