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WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 53
Vocational re-education etc provided by Authority
53 Vocational re-education etc provided by Authority
(cf 1987 s 153)
(1) The Authority may institute, administer or co-ordinate
vocational re-education and rehabilitation schemes for injured workers.
(2)
The Authority may draw from the Workers Compensation Operational Fund such
amounts as may be necessary or desirable for the purposes of the vocational
re-education and rehabilitation of injured workers.
(3) Without limiting the
generality of subsection (2), the Authority may draw from the
Workers Compensation Operational Fund such amounts as the Authority considers
appropriate-- (a) to provide financial incentives to employers who offer
employment to injured workers unable to find suitable employment and who
provide (or assist in the provision of) vocational re-education and
rehabilitation for those workers, or
(b) to provide financial incentives to
employers who retain or re-employ their injured workers and who provide (or
assist in the provision of) vocational re-education and rehabilitation for
those workers, or
(c) to provide financial assistance to employers or others
who offer injured workers work-trial experience or other voluntary work as
part of the workers' rehabilitation training (being assistance in connection
with the cost of any necessary insurance arrangements relating to the workers
or for other incidental expenses).
(4) The Authority may establish within the
Workers Compensation Operational Fund an account, to be known as the
Vocational Re-education and Rehabilitation Account, for the purpose of keeping
a separate record of the money in that Fund set aside by the Authority for the
purposes of this section and the money paid from that Fund under this section.
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