Commission rules and regulations concerning medical evidence
294A Commission rules and regulations concerning medical evidence
(1) The Commission rules and the regulations may make provision for or with
respect to--
(a) the disclosure, by the furnishing of copies of reports or
otherwise, of the nature of the expert medical evidence to be given in
evidence before the Commission (including the exclusion of any such evidence
for non-compliance with any requirement for the disclosure of the nature of
the evidence), and
(b) the disclosure of medical reports (including X-rays
and the results of other tests) to medical assessors (including the exclusion
of any such medical report for non-compliance with any requirement for the
disclosure of the medical report), and
(c) limiting the number of
medical reports in connection with a claim or any aspect of a claim and, in
particular, limiting the number of medical reports that may be admitted in
evidence in proceedings before the Commission, and
(d) limiting the number of
expert witnesses that may be called by any party and otherwise restricting the
calling of expert witnesses by a party.
