New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987 - SECT 73

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.