Western Australian Current Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 182X

182X .         Meetings and conferences, notice of and failure to attend

        (1)         Notice of the time and place at which a party to the dispute is required to attend a meeting with the conciliation officer is to be given to the party in accordance with the conciliation rules.

        (2)         Notice of the time and place for a conciliation conference is to be given in accordance with the conciliation rules —

            (a)         to each party to the dispute; and

            (b)         if the conciliation officer considers that it is appropriate in the circumstances for another person to receive notice of the conference: to that other person.

        (3)         If a person, including a party, to whom notice has been given in accordance with the conciliation rules fails to attend a conciliation conference, the conciliation conference may be held in the absence of that person.

        (4)         The failure of a party to attend before the conciliation officer when required to do so does not prevent a direction that affects the party from being given under section 182K or 182L.

        [Section 182X inserted: No. 31 of 2011 s. 6.]