Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2011A00182:clause:1_1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2011A00182
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1
Character Range: 1278–1980

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