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WORKERS' COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 1991 (NO. 105 OF 1991) - SECT 19

Insertion

19. After section 25 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

“25A. (1) A written statement in relation to a worker's injury which is given by the worker to his or her employer or to the employer's insurer is not to be admitted in evidence on behalf of such an employer or insurer in any proceedings under this Act unless the employer or insurer, as the case may be, has, not later than 14 days before the proceedings are heard, given to the worker, or his or her solicitor or agent, a copy of the statement.

“(2) In this section—

‘insurer' means—

        (a)     an approved insurer; or

        (b)     the nominal insurer.”.



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