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Workers Compensation Act 1951
196Admissibility of statements by injured workers
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196 Admissibility of statements by injured workers
(1) A written statement in relation to a worker’s injury that is given by
the worker to the worker’s employer or to the employer’s insurer is
not to be admitted in evidence on behalf of the employer or insurer in
any proceeding under this Act unless the employer or insurer has, not
later than 14 days before the proceeding is heard, given to the worker,
or the worker’s lawyer or agent, a copy of the statement.
(b) the DI fund.