WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 320

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 320

320 .         Moneys paid under repealed Act taken into account

                Where by virtue of section 4 there is under this Act —

            (a)         liability to pay compensation or to pay for the provision of other benefits, or both; and

            (b)         entitlement to receive compensation or other benefits, or both,

                for or in relation to an injury, in determining that liability and the extent of it and that entitlement and the extent of it, moneys paid or required to be paid under the repealed Act for or in relation to the same injury shall be taken into account and deemed to be moneys paid or required to be paid under this Act, the intention being that for or in relation to the same injury a liability and an entitlement under the 2 Acts merge into a liability and entitlement under and subject to this Act.

        [Section 320, formerly section 197, amended: No. 42 of 2004 s. 146 and 147 and renumbered as section 320: No. 42 of 2004 s. 154(1).]