South Australian Consolidated Acts

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1986 - SECT 58A

58A—Reports of return to work etc

        (1)         An employer (other than a self-insured employer) must notify the Corporation whenever—

            (a)         a worker who has been receiving weekly payments for total incapacity returns to work; or

            (b)         there is a change in the weekly earnings of a worker who is receiving weekly payments for partial incapacity; or

            (c)         there is a change in the type of work performed by a worker who is receiving weekly payments for partial incapacity,

(but notification is not required in a case or class of cases excepted by the Corporation from the operation of this subsection).

        (2)         Where a worker who has been receiving weekly payments for total incapacity returns to work with an employer other than the employer from whose employment the disability arose, the worker must notify that previous employer of the return to work.

        (3)         A notification under subsection (1) or (2)—

            (a)         must be given within 14 days of the occurrence of the notifiable event or such longer period as the regulations may allow; and

            (b)         must include full particulars of the notifiable event.

        (4)         A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $1 000.