WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 235 Non-assignability of compensation

WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 235

235 Non-assignability of compensation

(cf 1926 s 55; 1987 s 273)

(1) Compensation under this Act (including the 1987 Act and the former 1926 Act)--

(a) is not capable of being assigned, charged or attached, and

(b) does not pass to any other person by operation of law,

nor can any claim be set off against that compensation.

(2) Subsection (1) has no effect to the extent to which (but for this subsection) it would operate to prevent--

(a) the satisfaction of an obligation by the worker to maintain another person pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or

(b) the passing of accrued vested rights of a deceased worker to the legal personal representative.