Civil Liability (Assessment of Hearing Injury) Act, 1998

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Interpretation.

1.—In this Act—

“hearing injury” includes—

(a) hearing loss caused by injury which results in the deviation of an individual's hearing, as measured by pure tone audiometry, from previous measurement, where available, of his or her uninjured hearing or, where such measurement is not available, from that predicted as normal for his or her age, and

(b) tinnitus;

“proceedings”, in relation to personal injuries, includes any application or claim for compensation;

“the Report” means the Report to the Minister for Health and Children by an Expert Hearing Group, which was published by the Department of Health and Children on the 9th day of April, 1998, entitled “Hearing Disability Assessment”.