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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 53

Recovery of unlawful charge for compensation or damages for injury

53 Recovery of unlawful charge for compensation or damages for injury

(1) An amount taken or received from a worker in contravention of section 52 with or without the worker’s consent, may be recovered by the worker as a debt from—
(a) the person who took or received the amount; and
(b) if that person was acting for the worker’s employer in taking or receiving the money—the worker’s employer.
(2) A worker is not entitled to recover the amount more than once.



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