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WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 129

Power to correct mistakes in medical reports or certificates

129 Power to correct mistakes in medical reports or certificates

(cf former s 136A)

(1) A medical referee or medical panel may, of the referee's or panel's own motion or on the application of a party to proceedings (and without formally reconvening), correct a certificate or report given by the referee or panel if it contains--
(a) a clerical mistake, or
(b) an error arising from an accidental slip or omission, or
(c) a material miscalculation of figures or material mistake in the description of any person, thing or matter referred to in the certificate or report, or
(d) a defect of form.
(2) This section applies to a medical certificate given by a medical specialist pursuant to section 121 as if the medical specialist were a medical referee.



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