(a) Any subscriber to the fund who shall, within seven (7) days after knowledge or notice of an accident to an employe in the course of his employment as required by section 311,¹ have filed with the board a true statement of such knowledge or a true copy of the notice shall be discharged from all liability for the payment of compensation for the personal injury or death of such employe by such accident, and all such compensation due therefor under Article III shall be paid out of the fund. The report of the accident required by the act of July 19, 1913 (P.L. 843, No. 408),² referred to as the Employee Injury Reporting Law, shall be sufficient compliance with this section if that report is made within seven (7) days of the injury and shall state that the employer making the report is a subscriber to the fund.

(b) Nothing in this section shall discharge any employer from the duty of supplying the medical and surgical services, medicine, and supplies required by section 306.³ Any subscriber who has supplied such services, medicines and supplies shall be reimbursed therefor from the fund. Any subscriber to the fund who, within seven (7) days after knowledge of an accident to any employe arising out of and in the course of his employment and such accident comes within the purview of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-173, 30 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.) or of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (44 Stat. 1424, 33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq.), has filed with the board a true statement of such knowledge shall be discharged from all liability for the payment of benefits for the personal injury or death of such employe by such accident, and all such benefits due therefor under provisions of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act or the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 shall be paid out of the fund. Any subscriber to the fund who shall, within seven (7) days after knowledge of an accident to an employe arising out of and in the course of his employment, have filed with the board a true statement of such knowledge shall be discharged from all liability for all sums such subscriber shall become legally obligated to pay any employe of his as damages because of bodily injury by accident or disease, including death at any time resulting therefrom, sustained by such employe arising out of and in the course of his employment, and all such sums shall be paid out of the fund.