Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00116:section:140
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00116
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 140
Character Range: 205860–207386

140  Notice of departure from Australia etc.
 (1) This section applies to a person to whom payments of compensation under section 31 are being made, and have been made for a period of 3 months or longer, by an employer.
 (2) If the person proposes to leave Australia (whether or not he or she intends to return), the person may give the employer a written notice:
 (a) stating that the person proposes to leave Australia; and
 (b) specifying the day on which the person proposes to leave.
 (3) If the person has left Australia (whether or not he or she proposes to return) without giving a notice under subsection (2), the person must, within 7 days after the day on which he or she left Australia, send the employer a written notice:
 (a) stating that the person has left Australia; and
 (b) specifying the day on which the person did so.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (4) If the person is absent from Australia for longer than 3 months, the person must:
 (a) within 7 days after the end of the period of 3 months starting on the day on which the person left Australia; and
 (b) within 7 days after the end of each successive period of 3 months (if any) that ends while the person is still absent from Australia;
give the employer, as the case requires, a written notice setting out particulars of the person's residential address on the day on which the notice is given.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (5) Subsections (3) and (4) are offences of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.