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Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
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17 Register of injuries
(1) The employer must cause a register of injuries to be kept—
(a) at each specified workplace; and
(b) at a place in that specified workplace readily accessible at all reasonable times to a worker employed in the specified workplace or a person acting on such a worker's behalf.
(2) A worker, or any person acting on a worker's behalf, may enter the workplace particulars of an injury in the register of injuries.
(3) On receiving notice of an injury of which the workplace particulars have not been entered in the register, an employer must cause the workplace particulars of the injury to be entered in the register as far as reasonably practicable.