(1)

This section applies if a person's rehabilitation authority (the original rehabilitation authority ) changes to another rehabilitation authority (the new rehabilitation authority ) because of section 39.

(2)

If:

(a) under subsection 44(2), the person requests the original rehabilitation authority to carry out an assessment of the person's capacity for rehabilitation; and
(b) the rehabilitation authority changes before the assessment begins;

the person's request is taken to have been made to the new rehabilitation authority.

(3)

A determination of the original rehabilitation authority that is in force immediately before the rehabilitation authority changes has effect as a determination of the new rehabilitation authority. The new rehabilitation authority is responsible for giving effect to the determination.