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Workers’ Compensation (Dust Diseases) Act 1942

8CPower to terminate or vary awards

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8C Power to terminate or vary awards

Where the Authority is satisfied that by reason of any mistake of law or of fact an award was wrongly made or any amount of compensation specified in an award was wrongly calculated, it may terminate or vary such award, and the compensation payable thereunder, accordingly.

s 8C: Ins 1957 No 26, sec 2 (h). Am 1967 No 98, sec 3 (1) (i).

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