Filing of the Application
Section 8 provides that an applicant must file the application at the Registry.
Section 4 provides that “Registry” means the Registry of the Workers
Compensation Tribunal.
Time Limits
Section 10 provides that an application must be filed within 180 days of the
occurrence of the injury.
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Service of the Application
Section 8(2)
provides that after filing the application at the Registry an
applicant must serve it on the employer.
Relationships
So far we have exhaustively broken down the provisions of the statute so that
each provision has been divided into a checklist of elements
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and the legal
consequences that follow when each element is satisfied. The legal
relationships were indicated in one or more of several ways – they were stated
explicitly, they were apparent from the headings or they were implicit from the
context.
In fact the relationships
consisted of
the standard relationships between
provisions dealing with litigation. Litigious law has four standard types of
provisions that are present regardless of the nature of the cause of action.
There are action, establishment, jurisdictional and procedural provisions.
These provisions and their relationship to each other have been explained
earlier in the chapter.
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This time limit is here included as a procedural requirement. It also has
substantive effect because an application cannot be made out of time.
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For example under “Procedure” there were four items –
form of the
application, filing of application, service of application and time limits –
which
were necessary to institute proceedings. Each of these items was broken down
into its components, and where necessary, the components were also broken
down.
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