New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 148

148 Application of other provisions of Act

(1) For the purposes of section 13 (3), the Nominal Insurer is to have the same entitlement to recover payments it has made to a worker in respect of a claim under this Division as an employer has in respect of payments the employer has made to a worker under section 13.

(2) If a worker has received payments in respect of a claim under this Division, the payments are to be treated as compensation or work injury damages (as appropriate) recovered by the worker for the purposes of:

(a) section 64 of the former Act as continued in operation by clause 1 (2) of Part 14 of Schedule 6 to this Act, and

(b) section 151Z of this Act.

(3) The regulations may provide for the application (with such modifications as may be prescribed) of other provisions of this Act with respect to any matter arising under this Division.