Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Accident Compensation Act 1985 - SECT 47

Admissibility of medical reports

47. Admissibility of medical reports



(1) A medical report arising from an examination is admissible in evidence in
any proceedings under this Act.

(2) Subsection (1) is subject to any provision of the rules of the County
Court or the Tribunal, as the case requires, or the regulations relating to
the giving of notice of the admission in evidence of the medical report.

(3) A medical practitioner whose medical report is, pursuant to subsection
(1), admissible in evidence, may be required, in accordance with the rules of
the County Court or the Tribunal, as the case requires or the regulations, to
attend and be cross-examined on the contents of the report.

(4) In this section medical report means any written report of a medical
practitioner or registered psychologist relating to the worker, but does not
include a certificate or report to which section 48 applies.