Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

The insurer may suspend the worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments if the insurer considers the worker’s absence from Australia will, or is likely to, adversely affect—

the worker’s condition resulting from the worker’s injury; or

the worker’s prospects of improvement or rehabilitation.

The worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments may be suspended for all or part of the period the worker is absent from Australia.

If the insurer decides to suspend the worker’s entitlement to treatment, care and support payments, the insurer must give the worker written notice of the decision.

The notice—

must state the period of the suspension; and

may state that the period of suspension starts on the day the worker left Australia, even if the notice is given after that day.