WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 145C
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 145C
145C . Constituting panels
(1) On a question
being referred for determination by a medical assessment panel, the relevant
authority is to select 3 medical practitioners who are registered under
section 145B to be the panel that is to determine the question.
(2) Of the members of
the panel at least one is to be a specialist in the particular branch of
medicine or surgery that is relevant to the question.
(2a) Despite
subsection (2), if the question is referred under clause 18A(2ab), each
practitioner selected is to be a specialist in a branch of medicine or surgery
that is relevant to the question.
(3) A medical
practitioner who has treated or examined the worker concerned in a
professional capacity is not eligible to be a member of the panel.
(4) The relevant
authority is to nominate one of the members of the panel to be its chairman.
[Section 145C inserted: No. 48 of 1993 s. 25;
amended: No. 34 of 1999 s. 38; No. 42 of 2004 s. 106; No. 31 of 2011 s. 34.]