WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 93N
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 93N
93N . Special evaluation if worker’s condition has not stabilised sufficiently
(1) This section
applies if, after the expiry of the period of 18 months after the day on which
a claim for compensation by way of weekly payments is made by a worker, an
approved medical specialist certifies that the worker’s condition has
not stabilised to the extent required for a normal evaluation of the
worker’s degree of permanent whole of person impairment to be made in
accordance with sections 146A and 146C.
(1A) In subsection (1)
—
claim for compensation by way of weekly payments
means a claim for compensation by way of weekly payments for total or partial
incapacity that has been made on an employer in accordance with
section 178(1)(b).
(2) The worker may
request an approved medical specialist to make a special evaluation of the
worker’s degree of permanent whole of person impairment in accordance
with sections 146A and 146C.
(3) The approved
medical specialist requested to make a special evaluation may be the approved
medical specialist who certified as described in subsection (1).
(4) The request is to
be made in accordance with the regulations and is to be accompanied by a copy
of the certificate referred to in subsection (1).
(5) The approved
medical specialist is to make the special evaluation in accordance with
sections 146A and 146C unless the worker’s condition is found to have
stabilised to the extent required for a normal evaluation, in which case the
approved medical specialist is to make a normal evaluation in accordance with
those sections.
(6) In this section
—
normal evaluation has the meaning given to that
term in section 146C.
[Section 93N inserted: No. 42 of 2004 s. 79;
amended: No. 31 of 2020 s. 9.]
[ 93O. Deleted: No. 31 of 2020 s. 10.]