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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 33

33 .         Incapacity after claim made

                The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following in connection with a claim for compensation if a certificate of capacity did not specify that the worker had an incapacity for work but a subsequent certificate of capacity specifies that the worker has an incapacity for work —

            (a)         the amendment of the claim to enable the claim to be properly dealt with as including a claim for income compensation;

            (b)         the obligations of employers, insurers and self-insurers in respect of the claim;

            (c)         the obligations of an insurer or self-insurer to make a decision on the employer’s liability to pay income compensation;

            (d)         the circumstances in which an insurer or self-insurer is taken to have accepted that the employer is liable to pay income compensation for incapacity for work.



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