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Workers Compensation Regulation 2016
19Category 1 employers must have return-to-work co-ordinator
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#### 19 Category 1 employers must have return-to-work co-ordinator
19 Category 1 employers must have return-to-work co-ordinator
> > (1) A category 1 employer must—
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> > > (a) employ a person to be a return-to-work co-ordinator for injured workers of the employer, being a person who has undergone such training as the return-to-work guidelines may require, or
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> > > (b) engage a person in accordance with such arrangements as the return-to-work guidelines may from time to time permit to be a return-to-work co-ordinator for injured workers of the employer.
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> > Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> > (2) The following are examples of the arrangements that the return-to-work guidelines can permit for the purposes of this clause—
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> > > (a) the engagement of a person under an arrangement with a person or organisation that provides return-to-work co-ordinators to employers,
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> > > (b) an arrangement under which a person is engaged on a shared basis by 2 or more employers.
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> > (3) The return-to-work guidelines can require an employer to obtain the approval of the Authority before entering into an arrangement for the purposes of subclause (1)(b).
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> > (4) The return-to-work guidelines can impose requirements with respect to the training, qualifications and experience of persons who may be engaged to be return-to-work co-ordinators under subclause (1)(b).