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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 302

302 .         Deductions from wages towards compensation not lawful

        (1)         An employer or any person on his behalf, or an insurer or any person on its behalf, shall not, directly or indirectly, take or receive any money from any worker whether by way of deduction from wages or otherwise, in respect of any liability of an employer to pay compensation under this Act.

        (2)         Where money is so taken or received from any worker, whether with the consent of such worker or not, he may sue and recover the amount of that money from the employer, insurers, or person who took or received it.

        (3)         A person contravening subsection (1) commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        [Section 302, formerly section 182, amended: No. 34 of 1999 s. 49; renumbered as section 302: No. 42 of 2004 s. 154(1).]



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