Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) After section 2(1) of the Police Assistance Compensation Act 1968 insert —
"(1AA) If a person who is entitled to make a claim for compensation under this Act does so in respect of a personal injury that is a mental injury, the person is entitled to be paid provisional payments in relation to that mental injury.
(1AB) Subsection (1AA) 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) After section 2(2AB) of the Police Assistance Compensation Act 1968 insert —
"(2AC) The provisional payments referred to in subsection (1AA) are to be paid in accordance with and subject to the Accident Compensation Act 1985 or the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 , as the case requires to, or for the benefit of, those persons to whom or for whose benefit, provisional payments would be payable under that Act if—
(a) the person had been, at the time the personal injury was suffered, a worker employed by the Crown; and
(b) the personal injury has arisen out of or in the course of that employment—
within the meaning of that Act.".