Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SEAFARERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1992 No. 234, 1992 - SECT 140

140.(1) This section applies to a person to whom payments of compensation
under section 31 are being made, and have been made for a period of 3 months
or longer, by a employer.

(2) If the person proposes to leave Australia (whether or not he or she
intends to return), the person may give the employer a written notice:

   (a)  stating that the person proposes to leave Australia; and

   (b)  specifying the day on which the person proposes to leave.

(3) If the person has left Australia (whether or not he or she proposes to
return) without giving a notice under subsection (2), the person must, within
7 days after the day on which he or she left Australia, send the employer a
written notice:

   (a)  stating that the person has left Australia; and

   (b)  specifying the day on which the person did so. Penalty: 5 penalty
        units.

(4) If the person is absent from Australia for longer than 3 months, the
person must:

   (a)  within 7 days after the end of the period of 3 months starting on the
        day on which the person left Australia; and

   (b)  within 7 days after the end of each successive period of 3 months (if
        any) that ends while the person is still absent from Australia; give
        the employer, as the case requires, a written notice setting out
        particulars of the person's residential address on the day on which
        the notice is given. Penalty: 5 penalty units.