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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 73
Reimbursement for costs of medical certificate and examination
73 Reimbursement for costs of medical certificate and examination
(1) The obtaining of a permanent impairment medical certificate and any
examination required for the certificate are taken to be a
medical or related treatment for the purposes of Division 3 if-- (a) the
medical practitioner has completed such training as the Authority may require
in respect of the assessment of the degree of permanent impairment as provided
by this Act, and
(b) the worker has given the employer a copy of the
certificate.
(2) In this section--
"permanent impairment medical certificate" means a report or certificate of a
medical practitioner that certifies-- (a) that a worker has received an injury
resulting in permanent impairment, and
(b) the degree of permanent impairment
(assessed as provided by this Act) resulting from the injury.
(3) The
following provisions apply to compensation to which a worker is entitled in
respect of the obtaining of a permanent impairment medical certificate and any
examination required for the certificate-- (a) the compensation is not payable
until the claim for the permanent impairment compensation to which the
certificate or examination relates is determined,
(b) a claim for the
compensation is to be treated as part of the claim for the permanent
impairment compensation to which the certificate or examination relates (and
so is subject to the requirements of section 281 of the 1998 Act as to when
the claim must be determined),
(c) section 279 (Liability to be accepted
within 21 days) of the 1998 Act does not apply to the compensation.
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