Western Australian Current Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 64

64 .         Medical examination, worker claiming injury may be required to attend

        (1)         Where a worker has given notice of an injury he shall, if so required by the employer, submit himself for examination by a medical practitioner provided and paid by the employer.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to an election made by the worker —

            (a)         for the purposes of section 24 to receive compensation in accordance with that section for permanent loss of the full efficient use of the back, neck or pelvis; or

            (b)         for the purposes of section 31C to receive compensation in accordance with that section for impairment of the back, neck or pelvis.

        (3)         A reference in subsection (1) to the employer is, where the employer is insured against liability to pay compensation under this Act, a reference to the employer’s insurer.

        [Section 64 amended: No. 48 of 1993 s. 28(1); No. 42 of 2004 s. 51 and 146.]