Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 535

535 Particular acts taken to be fraud

(1) This section applies if a person—

(a) lodges an application for compensation with an insurer; and

(b) engages in a calling; and

(c) without reasonable excuse, does not inform the insurer, in the way stated under section 136 , of the person’s engagement in the calling.

(2) If compensation is paid by the insurer under the application to the person or anyone else—

(a) after the start of the engagement in the calling; and

(b) before the insurer is informed in the way stated under section 136 of the engagement in the calling;

the person is taken to have defrauded the insurer of the payments under section 533 .

(3) If payments to which subsection (2) applies are not made, the person is taken to have attempted to defraud the insurer under section 533 .