South Australian Numbered Regulations

RETURN TO WORK REGULATIONS 2015 (NO 29 OF 2015) - REG 19

19—Certification by designated person (section 30 of Act)

        (1)         For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of designated person in section 30(10) of the Act, a nurse practitioner—

            (a)         is a person of a prescribed class; and

            (b)         may, subject to subregulation (2)

, provide a certificate for the purposes of a claim if the nurse practitioner has examined the worker at—

                  (i)         an incorporated hospital; or

                  (ii)         a private hospital,

within the meaning of the Health Care Act 2008

.

        (2)         A nurse practitioner’s ability to act under section 30 of the Act is limited to certifying the worker’s capacity for work over the ensuing 7 days.

        (3)         In this regulation—

"nurse practitioner" means a nurse whose registration under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law is endorsed as being qualified to practise as a nurse practitioner.