New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 45A

45A Injury management consultants

(1) The Authority may by instrument in writing approve a person as an injury management consultant for the purposes of the Workers Compensation Acts.

(2) Such an approval may be for a fixed or indefinite period and may be made subject to conditions.

(3) The Authority may by instrument in writing revoke the approval of an injury management consultant for any breach of the conditions of the approval or for such other reason as the Authority thinks appropriate.

(4) WorkCover Guidelines may provide for the functions of approved injury management consultants.

(5) A person approved as an injury management consultant under this section is, in any legal proceedings, competent but not compellable to give evidence or produce documents in respect of any matter in which he or she was involved in the course of the exercise of his or her functions as an approved injury management consultant.

(6) An injury management consultant who is aggrieved by a decision of the Authority to revoke the consultant’s approval may apply to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal for a review of the decision.