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Workers Compensation Act 1951
43Stopping payments for total incapacity
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43 Stopping payments for total incapacity
(1) A worker stops being entitled to weekly compensation for total
incapacity for a compensable injury at the earliest of the following
times:
(a) when the worker stops being totally incapacitated because of the
injury;
(b) when the worker returns to work;
(c) when the worker dies.
(2) However, if the worker stops being entitled to weekly compensation
under subsection (1) (a) or (b), the worker may again become entitled
to weekly compensation for the compensable injury if the worker
again becomes totally or partially incapacitated because of the injury.