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ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 1985 - SECT 82D

Where conviction or finding of guilt overturned

If—

        (a)     compensation in the form of weekly payments to a worker—

S. 82D(a)(i) amended by No. 49/2014 s. 52.

              (i)     has been reduced in accordance with section 82A, 82B or  82BA; or

              (ii)     in accordance with section 82C, is not payable—

after the worker has been convicted or found guilty of an offence; and

        (b)     the conviction or finding is overturned on appeal—

the Authority or self-insurer must pay to the worker, subject to and in accordance with this Act—

S. 82D(c) amended by No. 80/2010 s. 48(a).

        (c)     the amount by which each weekly payment had been reduced, or the amount that had not been paid, together with interest at the prescribed rate on each such amount, in respect of the period from the date on which the payment was due until the date on which the amount is paid; and

S. 82D(d) inserted by No. 80/2010 s. 48(b).

        (d)     all amounts of compensation not paid in accordance with section 82C and to which, but for the conviction or finding of guilt, the worker would have been entitled.

S. 83 amended by Nos 48/1986
s. 14, 64/1989 s. 35(b)(i)(ii)(c), substituted by No. 67/1992
s. 12.



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