New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 69B

69B Employer’s responsibility to pay for hearing loss tests

(1) An employer who would, but for the operation of section 69A, be liable to pay permanent impairment compensation in respect of a loss of hearing suffered by a worker, is not liable under Division 3 to pay the cost of a hearing test for that loss, except any of the following tests:

(a) the test that is the first such test for that loss after the commencement of this section,

(b) any test carried out not less than 3 years, or such other period as may be prescribed, after any previous test that the employer has paid the cost of obtaining,

(c) any test that finds that the worker has suffered a total hearing loss due to boilermakers deafness of 6% or more,

(e) any test carried out after the worker has left the worker’s employment with the employer,

(f) any test carried out in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) The cost of a hearing test is the cost of obtaining a medical certificate, and any examination required for the certificate, as to the extent of the hearing loss concerned.

(3) This section does not operate to require payment by an employer for the cost of obtaining any hearing test that the employer would not otherwise be liable to pay for under Division 3.