Workers' (Occupational Diseases) Relief Fund Act 1954

The Governor may make regulations under this Act.

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, the regulations may – require the payment to the Secretary of sums in reimbursement of the expenses incurred by it in the arrangement of a medical examination or medical treatment for any person under this Act to which that person without reasonable excuse fails to submit himself; and authorize the Secretary to deduct those sums from any payments due to that person from the Secretary or to recover those sums from the employer of that person and, where those sums are so recovered from that employer, authorize him to make corresponding deductions in the remuneration of that person; and provide for the issue to any person who is or has been an employee of a record book and for the recording therein of the medical examinations and medical treatment to which that person has submitted himself under this Act; and require the production on such occasions or in such circumstances as may be prescribed of a record book so issued; and require the payment of a fee on the issue of a record book in place of one that has been lost, destroyed, or defaced; and provide that any return, application, or other document required by the regulations to be delivered to, or filed with, the Board, or any information or particulars contained therein, shall be verified by statutory declaration; and impose fines, not exceeding 10 penalty units, for offences against the regulations.