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Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
334Statutory offer and counter offer
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334 Statutory offer and counter offer
(1) If the Authority or self-insurer does not make a statutory offer under section 333, the Authority or self-insurer is deemed, for the purposes of that section, to have made, on the 60th day after the response date, a statutory offer of nothing.
(a) the Authority or self-insurer makes a statutory offer under section 333; and
(b) the worker does not make a statutory counter offer under that section—
the worker is deemed, for the purposes of that section, to have made, on the 21st day after the statutory offer was made, a statutory counter offer of the maximum amounts that may be awarded as damages under section 340(a) and (b).