Section 235 — Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW)

(cf former s 30Y)
To the extent that any amounts are paid out of the Guarantee Fund in respect of a claim, judgment or award pursuant to section 234 (including the costs of the Authority), the Authority shall, where an insolvent insurer (if it had provided indemnity to that extent under a policy of insurance) would have been entitled to recover any sum under a contract or arrangement for reinsurance, be entitled to the benefit of and may exercise the rights and powers of the insolvent insurer under that contract or arrangement so as to enable the Authority to recover from the reinsurer and pay into the Guarantee Fund the amount due under that contract or arrangement.

Related sections

• s 231 — Appointment of Authority as agent and attorney of employer and worker
• s 232 — Payments to employer or liquidator
• s 234 — Application of Guarantee Fund
• s 236 — Payments of workers compensation when insolvent insurer dissolved
• s 237 — Inspection of documents etc by person authorised by Minister
• s 238 — Authority may take certain legal proceedings

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