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WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 40

40 .         Provisional payments of medical and health expenses compensation

        (1)         Provisional payments in respect of medical and health expenses compensation are to be made for the period that begins on the day on which the worker’s injury occurred and ends on the earliest of the following days —

            (a)         the day on which the insurer or self-insurer gives a liability decision notice for the claim to the worker;

            (b)         the day on which the insurer or self-insurer is taken under section 29(3) to accept that the employer is liable to compensate the worker for the injury.

        (2)         The total amount of provisional payments in respect of medical and health expenses compensation is limited to 5% of the medical and health expenses general limit amount applying on the day the last of those provisional payments is made.



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