COMPENSATION LAW

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 8 September 1938, Page 9

COMPENSATION LAW

WEEKLY PAYMENTS AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT From Our Own Pat liaineritarv Report erl WELLINGTON, This Day. Weekly payments of compensation to workers under the Workers' Compensation Act are not to be discontinued except in specified cases, according to a section of the Statute Amendment Bill, which was read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday. These cases are those where the payment is in respect of total disablement and the worker has actually returned to work, by agreement with the worker, by leave of the Court, or by order of the Court. Upon application being made that

the worker is wholly or partially recovered. or that any incapacity from which he suffers is not due in whole or part to the accident, the Court may diminish the payments, but the fact that any application for leave is granted or refused, or that the worker has agreed to the ending or diminishing of the weekly payments, shall not be taken into account by the Court of Arbitration in determining in any proceedings whether or not the worker is entitled to compensation. If any employer ends or diminishes the weekly payments, he shall be liable for the amount in respect of which default is made. A consequential repeal is made in the 1936 Amendment Act, and the presenl Bill provides further that certificates already given by medical committees shall not be conclusive. Also it is prescribed that the time limit for the commencement of action for the recoverj lof compensation shall be coniputec from the passing of this Bill instead oi it I from the date of the accident.