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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 200A

Record keeping

    (1)     An employer must keep records of the following for 5 years after the day the record is made:

        (a)     an injury notice under section 93;

        (b)     a statement of the employer's estimate under section 155 ;

        (c)     a statement of total wages under section 156;

        (d)     a statement of total wages under section 157;

        (e)     a statement of total wages under section 158;

        (f)     a statement under section 159;

        (g)     a certificate of currency issued by an insurer to the employer;

        (h)     wages and earnings paid by the employer;

              (i)     invoices and related information given to the employer by a sub-contractor;

        (j)     a certificate of currency in relation to a contractor;

        (k)     material used by the employer to work out the wages for a statement of total wages;

        (l)     any record the employer is required to maintain under this Act.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

    (2)     The director-general, or the employer's insurer, may request the employer to make available any of the records mentioned in subsection (1).

    (3)     The employer must make the records available, not later than 3 days after a request is made, to the person who requested the records.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (4)     An offence against subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.

    (5)     In this section:

"certificate of currency"—see section 160.



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