49Interpretation for Part 5

49 Interpretation for Part 5 (1) In this Part: accredited vocational rehabilitation provider means a person, Agency or body approved under section 50(1). dependant, in relation to a worker, means: (a) a spouse or other member of the worker's family; (b) a person to whom the worker stood in loco parentis or who stood in loco parentis to the worker; (c) a grandchild of the worker, who was wholly or in part dependent on his or her earnings at the date of his or her death or who would but for the worker's incapacity due to the injury resulting in his or her death, have been so dependent. enrolled nurse means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law: (a) to practise in the nursing profession (other than as a student); and (b) in the enrolled nurses division of that profession. family, in relation to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, includes all persons who are members of the person's family according to the customs and traditions of the particular community of Aboriginals or Torres Strait Islanders with which the person identifies. hospital treatment, in relation to a worker, means treatment at a hospital within or outside the Territory, and includes his or her maintenance as a patient at the hospital, the provision or supply by the hospital of nursing attendants, medicine, medical or surgical

Return to Work Act 1986 29 supplies or other curative apparatus and all other ancillary services. medical, surgical and rehabilitation treatment, in relation to a worker, includes: (a) an attendance, examination or treatment on or of the worker by: (i) a medical practitioner; or (ii) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (other than as a student) to practise in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practice, chiropractic, dental, occupational therapy, osteopathy, physiotherapy or psychology profession; or (iv) another person that, if provided or carried out at the place where the person normally provides services, would be recognised for compensation purposes under a law providing for compensation to injured workers in that place; and (b) the provision of a medical certificate of capacity by a person referred to in paragraph (a) required by the worker, a dependant of the worker or the worker's legal personal representative for a purpose relating to the operation of this Part; and (c) the provision for the worker of: (i) prostheses; (ii) crutches and other walking aids; or (iii) spectacles, including the necessary repair, adjustment or replacement of those items; and (d) in relation to a claim under this Part, the repair or replacement of items of the kind referred to in paragraph (c) which were damaged or destroyed at the time of the injury giving rise to the claim; and (e) the provision of medical or surgical aids to rehabilitation or of curative appliances, apparatus or materials for the worker, otherwise than when a patient is in a hospital; and