20Certain applications prohibited

20 Certain applications prohibited

20 Certain applications prohibited

(1) An application may not be made under section 19 unless—

(a) before the application is made, notice of the injury to which it relates was given in accordance with the rules, or

(b) the Authority considers that notice of the injury was not so given as a consequence of ignorance, mistake, absence from New South Wales, the nature of the injury to which the application relates or other reasonable excuse.

(2) Where an authorised activity of a school is also an authorised activity of the Department, an application may not be made under section 19 in relation to an injury suffered by a person while participating in the activity—

(a) as an enrolled participant of the Department, if an application has been duly made under that section in relation to the same injury suffered by the person while participating in the activity as an enrolled student participant of the school, or

(b) as an enrolled student participant of the school, if an application has been duly made under that section in relation to the same injury suffered by the person while participating in the activity as an enrolled participant of the Department.

s 20: Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (9).