Short title

        1. These regulations may be cited as the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Review Board Regulations .

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Definition

        2. In these regulations, "Act" means the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act, 2022 .

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Reassignment of review

        3. The chief review commissioner may reassign a review from one review commissioner to another review commissioner before evidence is taken on a review.

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Information and evidence in review

        4. (1) The review commissioner may order production of all information that was before the commission in making its decision.

             (2)  Where the commission receives evidence subsequent to the rendering of a decision and the commission advises the review commissioner that it has considered the evidence for which a review has been requested before a decision is made by the review commissioner and it does not alter its decision, the review commissioner may accept that new evidence as part of the decision being reviewed.

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Information not provided

        5. Where a review commissioner orders a party or the commission to provide certain information by a particular date and that information is not provided by that date, the review commissioner may, in the review commissioner's discretion, proceed to make the decision without that information.

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Witness

        6. (1) Where a party wishes to call a person as a witness at a review, the party may serve the person with a subpoena in the form provided by the review board requiring the person to attend at a time and place stated in it and, where required, to produce certain documents at the review.

             (2)  A subpoena referred to in this section shall be

             (a)  issued by the review board; and

             (b)  served in accordance with the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1986 .

             (3)  A copy of the subpoena with proof of service shall be filed with the review board.

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Order by review commissioner

        7. Where, after examining both a request for review and the decision of the commission, the review commissioner determines that the commission failed to decide a question that the Act required the commission to decide, the review commissioner may issue an order returning the matter to the commission for a decision.

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Repeal

        8. The Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Review Division Regulations , Consolidated Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 1117/96, are repealed.

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