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and the Commissioner a certificate in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner giving details of the assessment.
Review of assessments
(Added, 76 of 1982, s. 14)
16G. *(1) An objection to an assessment by an Ordinary Assessment Board under section 16D(5) or by a Special Assessment Board under section 16E(8) or (9) may be made by the employer, the employee or the Commissioner in writing to the Ordinary Assessment Board or the Special Assessment Board, as the case may be, within 14 days after the date of issue to him of the relevant certificate under section 16F, or within such further time as the Ordinary Assessment Board or the Special Assessment Board, in the circumstances of any particular case, thinks fit, stating the ground of the objection, and a copy of the objection shall be sent by the objector-
(a) where the objector is the employer, to the employee and the Commissioner;
(b) where the objector is the employee, to the employer and the Commissioner; or
(c) where the objector is the Commissioner, to the employer and the employee. (Replaced, 31 of 1985, s. 6)
#(2) On receipt of an objection under subsection (1) the Ordinary Assessment Board or the Special Assessment Board, as the case may be, shall review its assessment and, after taking into account the objection, may confirm or vary the assessment.
(3) Upon completing a review under subsection (2) the Ordinary Assessment Board or the Special Assessment Board, as the case may be, shall issue to the employee, the employer and the Commissioner a certificate in such form as may be specified by the Commissioner stating-
(a) that the original assessment is confirmed and giving details thereof; or
(b) details of the assessment as varied.
(4) Upon the issue of a certificate under subsection (3), the certificate referred to in subsection (1) shall be cancelled.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2), (3) or (4), where upon a review of an assessment by an Ordinary Assessment Board under subsection (2), it appears to the Ordinary Assessment Board that the claim for compensation to which the assessment relates is one to which section 9(1A) applies, it shall not complete the review but shall refer the claim to a Special Assessment Board.
(6) The provisions of sections 16E, 16F and this section shall apply to a claim referred to a Special Assessment Board under subsection (5) as if it were a claim referred to a Special Assessment Board under section 16D(6).
(7) Upon the issue by the Special Assessment Board of a certificate under section 16F in respect of a claim referred to it under subsection (5), the certificate issued under section 16F in respect of that claim by the Ordinary Assessment Board shall be cancelled.
*To be repealed and replaced by 39 of 1988, s. 5(a) wef 1/1/1999 see LN226/88. +To be amended by 59 of 1988, s. 9 wef 1/1/1989 see LN226/88.
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