An employer seeking to cancel a worker's weekly compensation under s 69 of the Work Health Act (NT) must ensure the accompanying medical certificate uses the precise statutory language — certifying that the worker has ceased to be incapacitated 'for work'. A certificate that merely certifies the worker is 'no longer totally incapacitated' without those words is insufficient and renders the cancellation invalid. The worker remains entitled to continued payments from the date of the purported cancellation.
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