Western Australian Consolidated Acts

BLOOD DONATION (LIMITATION OF LIABILITY) ACT 1985 - SECT 3A

3A .         This Act not to apply to or in relation to liability under Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981

        (1)         Nothing in this Act applies to or in relation to any liability of the Society, a hospital, a medical practitioner or any other person under the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 to pay compensation, and to pay for the provision of other benefits, in relation to the injury or death, as a result of the contraction of AIDS, of a worker who was at the relevant time employed by the Society, hospital, medical practitioner or other person.

        (2)         In subsection (1) — 

        injury and worker have the respective meanings given by the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 .

        [Section 3A inserted by No. 52 of 1987 s. 4; amended by No. 42 of 2004 s. 156 and 174.]