New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 56

56 Award of compensation may be subject to supply of medical certificates etc

(1) The Commission may, as a condition of any award for weekly payments of compensation, require the worker to supply to the employer or other specified person from time to time medical certificates relating to the incapacity for work to which the award relates.

(2) Subject to any further order of the Commission, if any such certificate is not supplied in accordance with the terms of the award, weekly payments of compensation under the award may be suspended until the certificate is supplied.

(3) This section applies to an interim payment direction by the Registrar for weekly payments of compensation in the same way as it applies to an award by the Commission for any such payments.