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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 174AD

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 174AD

174AD .         Employer’s duty to assist WorkCover WA

        (1)         Where under section 174AB or 174AC WorkCover WA has or is subrogated to any right of an employer, WorkCover WA may by notice in writing require the employer to —

            (a)         give WorkCover WA any information and assistance which WorkCover WA considers necessary or desirable in relation to the exercise or proposed exercise of the right; and

            (b)         provide to WorkCover WA any documents in the employer’s possession or control which WorkCover WA considers necessary or desirable in relation to the exercise or contemplated exercise of the right; and

            (c)         execute any documents or instruments which may be necessary to enable WorkCover WA to exercise the right, or to ratify or confirm any exercise or purported exercise of the right by WorkCover WA.

        (2)         An employer must comply with any requirement made under subsection (1).

        Penalty: a fine of $5 000.

        [Section 174AD inserted: No. 31 of 2011 s. 116.]