Queensland Numbered Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION (COAL WORKERS' PNEUMOCONIOSIS) AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2017 - SECT 23

23 Amendment of s 189 (Worker’s decision about lump sum compensation—DPI less than 20% or no DPI)

Section 189 (2)—
insert—

(c) without limiting paragraphs (a) and (b), if the injury is pneumoconiosis—

(i) give the worker a copy of part 3, division 5 and division 5 of this part; and

(ii) advise the worker that, if the worker seeks damages for the injury, the worker may, despite section 239 , be entitled to further lump sum compensation under those provisions for the injury.