73ATime limit for determining claims relating to permanent impairment

#### 73A Time limit for determining claims relating to permanent impairment (1) If a claim for compensation relates to an injury resulting in permanent impairment to an employee, the employee’s employer must determine its liability in relation to the claim by the later of the following times: (a) the end of the period of 30 days after the day on which the employer receives the claim; (b) if, at the written request of the employer, the Authority, by written notice served on the employer, allows a further period or further periods for the determination of the liability—the end of that period or those periods, as the case may be. (2) If the employer, by notice under section 67 given to the claimant within the period referred to in paragraph (1)(a), requests the claimant to give information or a document or a copy of a document, or an authority to obtain information or a document or a copy of a document, that period is increased by the number of days occurring after the day on which the request was made and before the day on which the employer receives the information, the document or copy of the document or the authority, as the case may be. (3) A request under paragraph (1)(b) must state fully and in detail the circumstances concerning, and the reasons for, the employer’s request for the Authority to allow a longer period. (4) A notice under paragraph (1)(b) does not have any effect unless it is served on the employer before the end of the period by which, apart from the notice, the employer would be required to determine the liability (including any period previously allowed under that paragraph). (5) If the injury under subsection (1) results in permanent impairment to the employee, compensation is payable in respect of the claim for the impairment in accordance with section 39 or 40. (6) If the employer has not determined the claim by the end of the period allowed by this section, the employer is taken to have made a decision, at the end of that period, disallowing the claim.