Victorian Current Acts

WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 28LH

    (1)     Subject to this Division, an approved medical practitioner must make an assessment of degree of impairment under this Part—

        (a)     in accordance with—

              (i)     the A.M.A. Guides; or

              (ii)     the methods prescribed for the purposes of this Part; and

        (b)     in accordance with operational guidelines (if any) as to the use of those Guides or methods issued by the Minister.

S. 28LH(2) inserted by No. 102/2003 s. 15(2).

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) prevents an assessment being made in respect of a degree of impairment of a person even if not all of the injuries to the person have stabilised.

S. 28LI inserted by No. 60/2003 s. 4, substituted by No. 41/2006 s. 48.