Accidents Compensation Act 1901
Accidents Compensation Act 1901
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Accidents Compensation Act 1901
Public Act |
1901 No 4 |
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Date of assent |
27 July 1901 |
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Contents
An Act to make Provision for an Independent Medical Examination in Cases of Claims for Compensation for Accidents.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act is “The Accidents Compensation Act, 1901.”
2 Independent medical examination of person injured by accident.
Where any person injured or alleged to have been injured by an accident, through the wrongful act, neglect, or default of any other person, claims compensation or damages on account of the injury, any Judge of the Court in which proceedings to recover such compensation or damages are taken may order that the person injured be examined by one or more duly qualified medical practitioners named in the order, and not being witnesses on either side, and may make such order with respect to the costs of such examination as he thinks fit.
3 Proceedings stayed until examination.
If the person injured refuses to submit himself to such examination, or in any way obstructs the same, his right to compensation or damages under any Act or law shall be suspended, and all proceedings brought by him in respect of such compensation or damages shall be stayed, while such refusal continues.
4 Act applies to the Crown.
This Act shall apply to the Crown, and to every department of the public service.
5 Saving of “The Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900.”
Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of “The Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900.”
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Accidents Compensation Act 1901
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