WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 145A
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 145A
145A . Questions that may be referred to panels
(1) Subject to
subsection (2), a question may be referred for determination by a medical
assessment panel under section 182ZD or 210, Schedule 1 clause 18A(2ab) or
Schedule 7 clause 6 only if —
(a)
there is a conflict of medical opinion on the question between —
(i)
a medical practitioner engaged by the worker; and
(ii)
a medical practitioner provided and paid by the employer,
or each medical practitioner so provided and paid if there is more than one of
them;
and
(b) one
of the parties wishes the proceedings to continue.
(2) A question as to
the degree of permanent loss of the full efficient use of the back, neck or
pelvis may be referred for determination by a medical assessment panel under
section 182ZD or 210 if —
(a) the
employer does not agree to pay an amount claimed by the worker by way of an
election made for the purposes of section 24; and
(b) the
worker requests that the question be so referred.
[Section 145A inserted: No. 48 of 1993 s. 25;
amended: No. 34 of 1999 s. 37; No. 42 of 2004 s. 105; No. 31 of 2011 s. 32.]