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WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 28LH How is the degree of impairment to be assessed?

WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 28LH

How is the degree of impairment to be assessed?

    (1)     Subject to this Division, an approved medical practitioner must make an assessment of degree of impairment under this Part—

        (a)     in accordance with—

              (i)     the A.M.A. Guides; or

              (ii)     the methods prescribed for the purposes of this Part; and

        (b)     in accordance with operational guidelines (if any) as to the use of those Guides or methods issued by the Minister.

S. 28LH(2) inserted by No. 102/2003 s. 15(2).

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) prevents an assessment being made in respect of a degree of impairment of a person even if not all of the injuries to the person have stabilised.

S. 28LI inserted by No. 60/2003 s. 4, substituted by No. 41/2006 s. 48.