Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186:section:7:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00186
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 53359–55113

resulted from a disease or an aggravation of a disease, if, but for that disease or aggravation, as the case may be, the death of the employee would have occurred at a significantly later time.
 (6) An incapacity for work or impairment of an employee shall be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have resulted from a disease, or an aggravation of a disease, if, but for that disease or aggravation, as the case may be:
 (a) the incapacity or impairment would not have occurred;
 (b) the incapacity would have commenced, or the impairment would have occurred, at a significantly later time; or
 (c) the extent of the incapacity or impairment would have been significantly less.
 (7) A disease suffered by an employee, or an aggravation of such a disease, shall not be taken to be an injury to the employee for the purposes of this Act if the employee has at any time, for purposes connected with his or her employment or proposed employment by the Commonwealth, made a wilful and false representation that he or she did not suffer, or had not previously suffered, from that disease.
 (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