Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered ActsAt the end of section 27 of the Emergency Management Act 1986 insert —
"(2) If a volunteer emergency 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.
(3) Subsection (2) 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.".