Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sentencing Act 1991 - SECT 95BA

Medical reports

95BA. Medical reports



(1) A medical report may be attached to a victim impact statement.

(2) In this section-

dentist means-

   (a)  a person who is a registered dentist or qualified to be a registered
        dentist under the Health Professions Registration Act 2005 or any
        corresponding enactment of another State or a Territory of the
        Commonwealth; or

   (b)  a person entitled to practise dentistry in a place out of Australia
        under an enactment of that place corresponding to the
        Health Professions Registration Act 2005, whether or not the person
        does so practise;

medical expert means medical practitioner, dentist or psychologist;

medical matters includes dental matters and psychological matters;

medical practitioner means-

   (a)  a person registered or qualified to be registered as a medical
        practitioner under the Health Professions Registration Act 2005 or any
        corresponding enactment of another State or a Territory of the
        Commonwealth; or

   (b)  a person entitled to practise medicine in a place out of Australia
        under an enactment of that place corresponding to the
        Health Professions Registration Act 2005, whether or not the person
        does so practise;

medical report means a written statement on medical matters concerning the
victim made and signed by a medical expert and includes any document which the
medical expert intends should be read with the statement, whether the document
was in existence at the time the statement was made or was a document which
the medical expert obtained or caused to be brought into existence
subsequently;

psychologist means-

   (a)  a psychologist registered under the
        Health Professions Registration Act 2005; or

   (b)  a person who is qualified to be registered as a psychologist under the
        Health Professions Registration Act 2005; or

   (c)  a person who practises psychology in a place out of Victoria.