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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 53
Weekly payments--residence outside the Commonwealth
53 Weekly payments--residence outside the Commonwealth
(1) A worker receiving, or entitled to receive, a weekly payment of
compensation who ceases to reside in Australia continues to be entitled to
receive the weekly payment if the Commission or insurer has determined the
worker's incapacity for work resulting from the injury is likely to be of a
permanent nature.
(2) The weekly payment of compensation is payable-- (a) at
the employer's usual times of payment of wages to the worker, or
(b) at other
intervals as are agreed between the employer and the worker or between the
insurer and the worker.
(3) The worker's entitlement to the weekly payments
continues so long as the worker establishes, in the way and at the intervals
as may be required by the Workers Compensation Guidelines, the worker's
identity and the continuance of the incapacity for which the weekly payment is
payable.
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