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O.D. the employer, who shall file a report and testily and who shall not be allowed under any circumstances to adopt the report or the testimony or the exami nation of the physician of any other party. If the employe shall refuse to sub mit to the examination by the physician or physicians selected by the employer or the Commonwealth, the board shall order the employe to submit to an examination at a time and place set by it and by the physician or physicians selected and paid by the employer or the Commonwealth, or by a physician or physicians designated by it and paid by the employer or the Commonwealth. The board may at any time after such first examination order the employe to submit himself to such further examinations as it shall deem reasonable and necessary, at such times and plates and by such physicians as it may designate; and, in such case, the employer or the Commonwealth shall pay the fees and expenses of the examining physician or physicians, and the reasonable traveling expenses and loss of wages incurred by the employe in order to submit himself to such examination. The refusal or neglect, without reasonable cause or excuse o1 the employe to submit to such examination ordered by the board, either before or alter an agreement or award, shall deprive him of the right to com pensation under this article, during the continuance of such refusal or neglect, and the period of such neglect or refusal shall be deducted from the period during which compensation would otherwise be payable. The employee shall be entitled to have a physician or physicians of his own selection, to be paid by him, participate in any examination ordered by the board. **Section 315. In cases of disability all claims for compensation shall be forever barred, unless, within sixteen months after compensable disability begins, the parties shall have agreed upon the compensation payable under this article, or unless, within sixteen months after compensable disability begins, one of the parries shall have filed a petition as provided in article four hereof. In cases of death alt claims for compensation shall be forever barred, unless,, within sixteen months alter the death, the parties shall have agreed upon the compensation payable under this article, or unless, within sixteen months after the death, one of the parties shall have filed a petition as provided in article four hereof. Where, however, payments of compensation have been made in any case, said limitations shall not take effect until the expiration of sixteen months from the rime of the making of the most recent payment made prior to the date of filing such petitioa Section 316. The compensation contemplated by this article may at any rime be commuted by the board, at its then value when discounted at five per centum interest, with annual rests, upon application of either party, with due notice to the other, if it appear that such commutation will be for the best interest of the employee or the dependents of the deceased employee, and that it will avoid undue expense or undue hardship to either party, or that such employee or dependent has removed or is about to remove from the United States, or that the employer has sold or otherwise disposed of the whole or the greater part of his business or assets: Provided, however, That unless the employer agrees to make such commutation, the board may require the employee or the Aa amended by Act No. }S5, Laws of I9S5, effective March J9, 1954. 121