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Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
301IPower to request documents or information
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301I Power to request documents or information
(1) If ACCS considers that it may be relevant to the arbitration of a dispute, ACCS may request a party to a dispute or any other person to—
(a) produce a document or a class of documents specified; or
(b) provide information or information of a kind specified.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), ACCS may request the party or other person to provide oral evidence at an arbitration hearing.
(3) If ACCS requests a person who is not a party to the dispute to do any thing under subsection (1) or (2), ACCS must inform the person that—
(a) the doing of that thing is voluntary; and
(b) any document produced or information provided will be made available to each party to the dispute.
A party to the dispute has an obligation under section 301H to produce certain documents and disclose certain information.
(4) ACCS must make any document or information provided under this section available to each party to the dispute.
S. 301I(5) inserted by No. 27/2025 s. 21.
(5) On the request of a worker who was a party to an arbitration that has been determined, dismissed or referred for further conciliation, ACCS may make the following available to the worker—
(a) any document produced or information disclosed by or on behalf of the worker under section 301H(1);
(b) any document produced or information provided by the worker under subsection (1);
(c) any document or information made available to the worker under section 301H(4) or subsection (4).
S. 301J inserted by No. 15/2021 s. 35.