Return to Work Act 1986
184Survival of claims
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184 Survival of claims (1) This section does not apply to or in relation to compensation under section 71. (2) Where a person who is entitled to make a claim for compensation dies, that claim may be made by his or her legal personal representative. (3) A claim for compensation is not affected by the death of the claimant after the claim was given or served on the employer, the Nominal Insurer or the Authority, as the case may be. (4) A reference in this Act to a claimant shall: (a) in the case of a claim referred to in subsection (2) – be read as a reference to the legal personal representative who made the claim; and (b) in the case of a claim referred to in subsection (3) – be read, in relation to any time after the death of the person who made the claim, as a reference to the legal personal representative of that person. (5) Section 62 applies in relation to an amount payable as the result of a claim referred to in this section as if the deceased person had died after the relevant determination of the Court referred to in that section was made.