Section 324: Injured person may refuse to accept compensation, but payment of compensation is bar to further liability

(1) A person to whom compensation is awarded may refuse to accept the compensation.
(2) Where the person receives the compensation or where the convict, having been ordered to pay compensation, suffers imprisonment for non-payment, the receipt of the compensation, or the undergoing of the imprisonment, as the case may be, shall act as a bar to any further action for the same injury.
(3) Before making an order for compensation under this Act, the court shall explain the full effect of this section to the person to whom compensation is payable.