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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 196

Admissibility of statements by injured workers

    (1)     A written statement in relation to a worker's injury that is given by the worker to the worker's employer or to the employer's insurer is not to be admitted in evidence on behalf of the employer or insurer in any proceeding under this Act unless the employer or insurer has, not later than 14 days before the proceeding is heard, given to the worker, or his or her lawyer or agent, a copy of the statement.

    (2)     In this section:

"insurer" means—

        (a)     a licensed insurer; or

        (b)     the DI fund.



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