Section 298 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Work-related gradual process, disease, or infection involving exposure before 1 April 2002

298 Work-related gradual process, disease, or infection involving exposure before 1 April 2002 (1) This section applies if a claimant suffers a personal injury caused by a work-related gradual process, disease, or infection on or after 1 April 2002. (2) If an employment task referred to in section 30(2) was performed by the claimant or the claimant was employed in an environment referred to in that provision, at any time on or after 1 July 1999 and before 1 July 2000, the Corporation is entitled to recover some or all of the costs of providing entitlements to the claimant from the insurer who insured the claimant's employer or, in the case of a self-employed person, the insurer who was the insurer of the self-employed person, at that time under the Accident Insurance Act 1998. (3) The amount that the Corporation may recover is— where—

a is the period of time employed in the employment referred to in subsection (2) on or after 1 July 1999 and before 1 July 2000 when the insurer was the employer's or self-employed person's insurer;

and b is the total period of time the claimant was employed in the employment referred to in subsection (2) (including the time before 1 July 1999).