New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 287

287 Disputes to which Part applies

(1) This Part applies to a dispute in connection with a claim for compensation between--

(a) the person who makes the claim and a person on whom the claim is made, or

(b) the employer on whom the claim is made and the insurer on whom the claim is made.

(2) This Part extends to a dispute that concerns failure to commence provisional weekly payments of compensation as required by Division 1 of Part 3 (even though no claim has been made for that compensation) and so extends as if--

(a) a reference in this Part to weekly payments included a reference to provisional weekly payments, and

(b) initial notification of injury (as defined in Part 3) constituted a claim for the compensation.