Section 26 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Personal injury

26 Personal injury (1) Personal injury means— (a) the death of a person; or (b) physical injuries suffered by a person, including, for example, a strain or a sprain; or (c) mental injury suffered by a person because of physical injuries suffered by the person; or (d) mental injury suffered by a person in the circumstances described in section 21 ; or (da) work-related mental injury that is suffered by a person in the circumstances described in section 21B ; or (e) damage (other than wear and tear) to dentures or prostheses that replace a part of the human body. (2) Personal injury does not include personal injury caused wholly or substantially by a gradual process, disease, or infection unless it is personal injury of a kind described in section 20(2)(e) to (h) . (3) Personal injury does not include a cardio-vascular or cerebro-vascular episode unless it is personal injury of a kind described in section 20(2)(i) or (j) . (4) Personal injury does not include— (a) personal injury caused wholly or substantially by the ageing process; or (b) personal injury to teeth or dentures caused by the natural use of those teeth or dentures. (5) For the purposes of subsection (1)(e) and to avoid doubt, prostheses does not include hearing aids, spectacles, or contact lenses. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 29 Section 26(1)(da): inserted, on 1 October 2008, by section 8 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46).