(1) Where an employee has given notice of an accident, the employer shall, as soon as reasonably possible arrange to have the employee medically examined free of charge to the employee, by a medical practitioner named by the employer or by a medical practitioner named by the employee with the employer's approval, and an employee who is in receipt of periodical payments under section 6 shall submit to the medical examination as from time to time required by the medical practitioner.

(2) When the examination is carried out by a medical practitioner named by the employer, the employee shall, when required, attend on that medical practitioner at the time and place notified to the employee by the employer or that medical practitioner, where the time or place is reasonable or convenient.

(3) Where the employee, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, is unable or not in a fit state to attend on the medical practitioner named by the employer that fact shall be notified to the employer, and that medical practitioner shall fix a reasonable time and a convenient place for a personal examination of the employee and shall accordingly notify the employee.

(4) Where the employee refuses to submit to the examination, the right to compensation shall be suspended until the examination has taken place, and if the refusal extends for a period of fifteen days from the date when the employee was required to submit to the examination under subsection (2) or subsection (3) compensation is not payable unless the Court is satisfied that there was reasonable cause for the refusal.

(5) At the employee's expense, the employee is entitled to choose a medical practitioner to be present at an examination conducted by a medical practitioner named or approved by the employer.

(6) During the period of temporary total incapacity, the employer shall arrange to submit the employee for normal medical treatment by the employer's medical practitioner or the employee's medical practitioner approved by the employer, at the expense of the employer.

(7) The normal medical treatment includes a specialist treatment which the medical practitioner may require the employee to undergo.

(8) Where the employee fails to submit to the treatment by a medical practitioner when so required under subsection (6), or having submitted for treatment has disregarded the instructions of the medical practitioner, then if it is proved

(a) that the failure or disregard was unreasonable in the circumstances of the case, and

(b) that the injury has been aggravated by that failure, the injury and resulting incapacity shall be deemed to be of the same nature and duration as they might reasonably have been expected to be if the employee had submitted to the treatment by, and duly carried out the instructions of, the medical practitioner, and compensation shall be payable accordingly.

(9) Where under this section a right to compensation is suspended, compensation is not payable in respect of the period of suspension.

(10) Despite anything else in this section, where a claim for compensation is made in respect of the death of an employee, then if the employee

(a) failed to submit to the examination by a medical practitioner when so required under this section, or

(b) failed to submit to the treatment by a medical practitioner when so required under this section, or

(c) having submitted to the treatment, disregarded the instructions of the medical practitioner, and if it is proved that the failure or disregard was unreasonable in the circumstances of the case and that the death of the employee was caused by that failure, the death shall not be deemed from the injury, and compensation is not payable in respect of the injury.