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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 45

Effect of living outside Australia if compensation still payable

    (1)     This section applies if the worker lives outside Australia but is, apart from this section, still entitled to weekly compensation.

Note     A worker living outside Australia is still entitled to compensation if s 44 (2) applies to the worker.

    (2)     The worker is not entitled to weekly compensation, but is entitled to receive quarterly the amount of the weekly compensation payable during the previous quarter.

    (3)     However, the worker is entitled to receive quarterly payment of compensation only if the worker proves the worker's identity and that the worker continues to be incapacitated by the incapacity in relation to which the weekly compensation is payable.



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