employer of the claimant files an appeal with the board, from
the determination contained in any notice required to be
furnished by the department under section five hundred and one
(a), (c) and (d), within [fifteen] thirty calendar days after
such notice was delivered to him personally, or was mailed to
his last known post office address, and applies for a hearing,
such determination of the department, with respect to the
particular facts set forth in such notice, shall be final and
compensation shall be paid or denied in accordance therewith.
Section 2. Section 502 of the act, amended December 9, 2002
(P.L.1336, No.158), is amended to read:
Section 502. Decision of Referee; Further Appeals and
Reviews.--Where an appeal from the determination or revised
determination, as the case may be, of the department is taken, a
referee shall, after affording the parties and the department
reasonable opportunity for a fair hearing, affirm, modify, or
reverse such findings of fact and the determination or revised
determination, as the case may be, of the department as to him
shall appear just and proper. The parties and their attorneys or
other representatives of record and the department shall be duly
notified of the time and place of a referee's hearing and of the
referee's decision, and the reasons therefor, which shall be
deemed the final decision of the board, unless an appeal is
filed therefrom, within [fifteen] thirty days after the date of
such decision the board acts on its own motion, to review the
decision of the referee. A memorandum of testimony of any
hearing before any referee shall be made and be preserved for a
period of ninety days following expiration of the period for
filing an appeal from the final decision rendered in the case.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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