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Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
167GEffect of ongoing eligibility determination made after interim determination
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167G Effect of ongoing eligibility determination made after interim determination
(1) If the Authority or self-insurer makes an interim determination under section 167D(1)(a) that a worker is entitled to compensation after the expiry of the second entitlement period and subsequently makes an ongoing eligibility determination that the worker is not entitled to compensation after the expiry of the second entitlement period, the Authority or self-insurer must give the worker 13 weeks of notice for the purposes of section 191(1)(b) before terminating the worker's weekly payments.
(2) If the Authority or self-insurer makes an interim determination under section 167D(1)(b) that a worker is not entitled to compensation after the expiry of the second entitlement period and subsequently confirms in an ongoing eligibility determination that the worker is not entitled to compensation after the expiry of the second entitlement period, the Authority or self-insurer is taken to have given the worker 13 weeks of notice for the purposes of section 191(1)(b).
(3) If the Authority or self-insurer makes an interim determination under section 167D(1)(b) that a worker is not entitled to compensation after the expiry of the second entitlement period and subsequently makes an ongoing eligibility determination that the worker is entitled to compensation after the expiry of the second entitlement period, the worker is entitled to compensation from the date that the interim determination took effect.
(4) No interest is payable to the worker on payments made to the worker in the circumstances described in subsection (3).
S. 167H inserted by No. 8/2024 s. 16.