20.19.1 Summary of requirements for payment of voluntary dischargees

Therefore, for weekly incapacity payments to be made to a member who voluntarily discharged (or was discharged for administrative reasons).

Client must produce an adequate medical certificate of incapacity (see 20.5) and the delegate must be satisfied that:

• incapacity originates with compensable condition, not another cause, and
• is either due to a natural deterioration of the condition since discharge, or
• an aggravation from activities within his/her medical restrictions, and
• is not due to 're-injury' i.e. a further unrelated accident/incident since discharge.