New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 14

14 Notice of requirement to obtain suitable employment from other person

(1) A notice under section 38A (3) of the Act:

(a) may be based on the model form (if any) set out in the claims procedures referred to in section 38A (3) (d) of the Act, and

(b) may include additional information and explanatory matter to assist in the understanding of the notice, and

(c) may be varied or replaced by a further notice given to the worker in accordance with section 38A (3) of the Act.

(2) Reminder copies of a notice under section 38A (3) of the Act may be given to the worker concerned from time to time.

(3) A notice given to a worker in accordance with section 38A (3) of the Act is sufficient notice for any further period of unemployment in respect of the same injury.

(4) In the case of any worker:

(a) who, before the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Workers Compensation Legislation (Amendment) Act 1994 , was at the same time both partially incapacitated for work as the result of an injury and unemployed, and

(b) who is, as at or at any time after that commencement, both partially incapacitated for work as the result of that injury and unemployed,

the requirement under section 38A (2) (d) of the Act applies regardless of whether the worker has been notified in accordance with section 38A (3) of the Act.