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Workers Compensation Act 1987
53Weekly payments—residence outside the Commonwealth
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#### 53 Weekly payments—residence outside the Commonwealth
53 Weekly payments—residence outside the Commonwealth
> > (1) A worker receiving, or entitled to receive, a weekly payment of compensation who ceases to reside in Australia continues to be entitled to receive the weekly payment if the Commission or insurer has determined the worker’s incapacity for work resulting from the injury is likely to be of a permanent nature.
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> > (2) The weekly payment of compensation is payable—
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> > > (a) at the employer’s usual times of payment of wages to the worker, or
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> > > (b) at other intervals as are agreed between the employer and the worker or between the insurer and the worker.
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> > (3) The worker’s entitlement to the weekly payments continues so long as the worker establishes, in the way and at the intervals as may be required by the Workers Compensation Guidelines, the worker’s identity and the continuance of the incapacity for which the weekly payment is payable.
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> **s 53:** Am 1989 No 119, Sch 1 (2); 2001 No 61, Sch 6.1 \[39\]; 2015 No 19, Sch 5 \[6\]; 2020 No 18, Sch 6.10\[2\]. Subst 2022 No 25, Sch 2.1\[2\].