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Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 No 86
Historical version for 6 July 2009 to 29 November 2009 (accessed 23 May 2013 at 20:18) Current version
Chapter 3Section 57

57   Compliance by worker

(1)  If a worker fails unreasonably to comply with a requirement of this Chapter after being requested to do so by the insurer, the worker has no entitlement to weekly payments of compensation during any period that the failure continues, subject to subsection (2).
(2)  A worker’s entitlement to weekly payments does not cease under this section until the insurer has given the worker written notice to that effect, together with a statement of the reasons for the entitlement ceasing and the action that the insurer considers the worker must take to be entitled to the resumption of weekly payments.
(3)  The resumption of weekly payments does not entitle the worker to weekly payments for the period in respect of which the worker had no entitlement to weekly payments.
Note. See also provisions for discontinuation of weekly payments in the 1987 Act (ss 52A, 54).
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