Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 44

Assessments on rehabilitation authority's initiative

  (1)   The rehabilitation authority for a person to whom this Part applies may, on its own initiative, carry out an initial assessment or a further assessment of the person's capacity for rehabilitation.

Requests for assessments

  (2)   A person to whom this Part applies may request his or her rehabilitation authority to carry out an initial assessment or a further assessment of his or her capacity for rehabilitation.

  (3)   The rehabilitation authority:

  (a)   must carry out an initial assessment; and

  (b)   may carry out a further assessment;

if the person requests the rehabilitation authority to do so.

Requirement to carry out assessment before ceasing or varying a program

  (4)   The rehabilitation authority must carry out an assessment before ceasing or varying a rehabilitation program under section   53.