Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 159

    (1)     If an employer has a compulsory insurance policy for a period of longer than 6 months, the employer must, within 30 days after the end of each reporting period, give the insurer a statutory declaration setting out—

        (a)     the number of territory workers in each determined category employed by the employer in the reporting period;

        (b)     the total wages paid to territory workers in each determined category in the reporting period; and

        (c)     the number of paid and unpaid workers working for the employer in the reporting period; and

        (d)     the approximate amount of time each paid and unpaid worker worked for the employer in the reporting period.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

Note     An employer who makes a statement in a statutory declaration that is false, misleading or incomplete may commit an offence (see s 162 and Criminal Code, pt 3.4).

    (2)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.

    (3)     This section does not apply to a non-business employer.

    (4)     In this section:

"reporting period", in relation to a compulsory insurance policy, means each of the following:

        (a)     the period (the 1st period ) of 6 months beginning on the 1st day of the policy;

        (b)     each successive period (a successive period ) of 6 months following the 1st period during which the policy is in force, other than a successive period that ends when the policy ends.