Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies in respect of a claim made by a worker for compensation by way of
weekly payments that was made after the day fixed by the Minister for the
purpose of this section by notice published in the Gazette .
(2) Where an employer
makes a claim to his insurer as referred to in section 57A(2) and weekly
payments to which the worker is entitled are commenced the insurer shall, as
soon as practicable but in any event before the expiration of 21 days after
the day on which the weekly payments were commenced, send to WorkCover WA
notification in accordance with subsection (5) of the matter to which the
claim relates.
Penalty: $1 000.
(3) Where section 57B
applies and weekly payments to which the worker is entitled are commenced the
employer shall, as soon as practicable but in any event before the expiration
of 21 days after the day on which the weekly payments were commenced, send to
WorkCover WA notification in accordance with subsection (5) of the matter to
which the claim relates.
Penalty: $1 000.
(4) An insurer or
employer who has given notification under subsection (2) or (3) in respect of
a claim shall send to WorkCover WA notification in accordance with subsection
(5) of the discontinuance of weekly payments as soon as practicable after the
weekly payments are discontinued, except that where it appears likely that
there will be any further payment of compensation under this Act to the worker
arising from the injury to which the claim relates, the notification required
under this subsection shall be sent as soon as practicable after it appears
that all such payments have been made.
Penalty: $1 000.
(5) Notification
required to be made in accordance with this subsection shall be in the form
prescribed containing substantially the information required and, in the case
of a notification under subsection (2) or (3), include an estimate of whether
or not the incapacity of the worker is expected to be for a period exceeding 4
weeks and shall, where WorkCover WA has so requested, be accompanied by a
means specified by WorkCover WA for conveying to WorkCover WA, in a
machine-readable form so specified, the details of the information and the
estimate.
[Section 57C inserted: No. 96 of 1990 s. 8;
amended: No. 42 of 2004 s. 44, 147 and 150.]