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WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 47 Worker's injury management plan obligations

WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 47

Worker's injury management plan obligations

47 Worker's injury management plan obligations

(1) An injured worker must participate and co-operate in the establishment of an injury management plan required to be established for the worker.
(2) The worker must comply with obligations imposed on the worker by or under an injury management plan for the worker.
(3) The worker must, when requested to do so by the insurer, nominate as the worker's treating doctor for the purposes of an injury management plan for the worker a medical practitioner who is prepared to participate in the development of, and in the arrangements under, the plan.
(4) A medical practice can be nominated as treating doctor for the purposes of subsection (3). Such a nomination operates as a nomination of the members of the practice who treat the worker from time to time and a reference in this Chapter to the nominated treating doctor is a reference to those members of the practice.
(5) The worker must authorise the worker's nominated treating doctor to provide relevant information to the insurer or the employer for the purposes of an injury management plan for the worker.
(6) An injury management plan must provide for the procedure for changing the worker's nominated treating doctor.