Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) After section 5.6.2(2) of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 insert —
"(2A) If a volunteer school worker or volunteer student worker who is entitled to make a claim for compensation under this Part does so in respect of a personal injury that is a mental injury, the worker is entitled to be paid provisional payments in relation to that mental injury.
(2B) Subsection (2A) does not apply —
(a) if the claim for compensation was made before the commencement of section 11 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Provisional Payments) Act 2021 ; or
(b) if a claim for compensation relating to the same mental injury and circumstances has previously been determined.".
(2) In section 5.6.2(4) and (5) of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 , after "compensation" insert "or provisional payments".