Western Australian Numbered Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 62

62 .         Restrictions on reduction, suspension or discontinuation of income compensation

                An employer must not reduce, suspend or discontinue income compensation payments to a worker except —

            (a)         to give effect to any provision of this Act as to the calculation of the amount of compensation that is payable or any limit on the amount of compensation that is payable; or

            (b)         to give effect to a direction of a conciliator or an order of an arbitrator; or

            (c)         in accordance with section 63,  64,  65 or  66; or

            (d)         with the written consent of the worker given in the approved form.

        Penalty: a fine of $10 000.

        Note for this section:

                Paragraph (a) covers changes to the amount of compensation that could result from changes to indexed amounts, changes to award rates of pay, or a change to the rate of compensation after the first 26 weeks of incapacity.