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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 171

171 .         Insurance offices to give information to WorkCover WA

        (1)         Every approved insurance office shall within 14 days of the close of each calendar month transmit to WorkCover WA —

            (a)         a statement in the prescribed form giving details of each employer who has during the month in question effected or renewed a policy or contract of insurance required by this Act with the insurance office concerned; and

            (b)         a statement in the prescribed form giving details of each employer in respect of whom the insurance office concerned has during the month in question marked in its books as lapsed (or, where WorkCover WA has permitted cancellation, cancelled) a policy or contract of insurance under this Act; and

            (c)         where WorkCover WA has requested the insurance office to do so, a means specified by WorkCover WA for conveying to WorkCover WA, in a machine-readable form so specified, the details referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), together with a statement certifying the accuracy of the details so conveyed.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (2)         Such a statement shall be signed by a responsible officer of the insurance office concerned.

        (3)         Subject to subsection (3a), a person, except with the express authority of WorkCover WA, shall not have access to, inspect, or peruse any such statement, and the information contained therein shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not, except for the purposes of this Act, be disclosed to any person.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (3a)         A person who is a principal within the meaning of that term in section 175 may, in writing, request WorkCover WA to disclose information as to the currency of a policy or contract of insurance required by this Act for the liability of a person who is, in relation to the person requesting the information, a contractor within the meaning of that term in that section, and WorkCover WA may, where it is satisfied that the information is not to be used for a purpose unconnected with the objects of this Act, in writing, disclose the information requested (which may include information as to the period for which the policy or contract, if any, remains in force).

        (4)         If any statement required by this section is false in any particular to the knowledge of any person who signs it, that person commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        [Section 171 amended: No. 44 of 1985 s. 38; No. 96 of 1990 s. 44; No. 34 of 1999 s. 57; No. 42 of 2004 s. 125 and 150; No. 31 of 2011 s. 110.]



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