Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Compensation Process
47I. Provision of information to platform operator’s insurer
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This section applies in relation to a claim in respect of a work injury caused to a platform worker (P) by an accident arising out of and in the course of P’s provision of a platform service for a platform operator.
claim
“claim” means a claim for compensation under this Act and includes a deemed claim under section 35;
For the purposes of processing a claim mentioned in subsection (1), any platform operator’s insurer (A) may request —
any platform operator (B) to provide —
information on whether P has, at any time during the lookback period, provided any platform service for B; and
if P has, at any time during the lookback period, provided any platform service for B, any information or document relating to any specified matter; or
P to provide —
information on whether P has, at any time during the lookback period, provided any platform service for any platform operator (other than a platform operator for whom P was providing a platform service at the time of the accident); and
if P has, at any time during the lookback period, provided any platform service for any platform operator mentioned in sub-paragraph (i), any information or document relating to any specified matter.
Upon receiving a request from A under subsection (2), B or P (as the case may be) must provide the information or document mentioned in subsection (2)(a)(i) and (ii) or (b)(i) and (ii) (as the case may be) within the time prescribed for the purposes of this subsection and in the form and manner required by the Commissioner.
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Labour appointed under section 3 of the Employment Act 1968;
In this section, “specified matter”, in relation to a platform worker’s provision of a platform service for a platform operator, means —
the platform worker’s earnings from providing the platform service for the platform operator during the lookback period;
the task or tasks performed by the platform worker in providing the platform service for the platform operator, including the mode or modes of transport used by the platform worker to perform any task; or
any other matter prescribed.