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5/2/2012
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Amendment of section 12
16. Section 12 of the principal Act is amended by-
(a)
replacing the chapeau to subsection (1) with the following-
" The SMV A Fund shall not pay a benefit to a claimant under section 10 for
any loss or damage-";
(b)
(c)
deleting the words "third party" where they occur in subsection (1) (b) and
replacing them with the word "person";
inserting the following new paragraphs (d), (e), (f) and(g)
"(d)
where the claimant has entered into an agreement with any person other
than the one referred to in paragraph (c) in accordance with which the
claimant has undertaken to pay such person after settlement of the claim-
(i)
a portion of the benefits in respect of the claim; or
(ii)
any amount in respect of an investigation or of a service rendered
in respect of the handling of the claim otherwise than on
instruction from the person contemplated in paragraph (c);
(e)
suffered as a result of bodily injury to any person who-
(i)
unreasonably refuses or fails to subject himself, at the request and
cost of the SMVA Fund, to any medical examination or
examinations by medical practitioners designated by the SMVA
Fund;
42.