77AProvision of certain services

77A Provision of certain services

[Section 77A Inserted by No. 16 of 1995, s. 53 ]

(1)  [Section 77A Subsection (1) substituted by No. 99 of 2000, s. 42, Applied:01 Jul 2001] [Section 77A Subsection (1) substituted by No. 39 of 2017, s. 20, Applied:01 Jan 2018] A medical practitioner must not, for the purposes of this Act, assess the degree of a person's permanent impairment, unless the medical practitioner has been accredited by the Board to assess the degree of a worker's permanent impairment.

(2)  [Section 77A Subsection (2) omitted by No. 99 of 2000, s. 42, Applied:01 Jul 2001] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(3)  A person is not to provide a prescribed service in respect of an injury for which compensation is or may be payable under this Act unless the person belongs to a class of persons prescribed in relation to the prescribed service and that person has been accredited by the Board.

(4)  [Section 77A Subsection (4) inserted by No. 85 of 2009, s. 27, Applied:01 Jul 2010] A person (in this section referred to as a "provider") is not to provide workplace rehabilitation services to another person for the purposes of this Act (including by reason only of supplying to the other person the services of a person employed or engaged by the provider) unless the provider has been accredited by the Board as a workplace rehabilitation provider.

(5)  [Section 77A Subsection (5) inserted by No. 85 of 2009, s. 27, Applied:01 Jul 2010] Subsection (4) does not apply to a person, employed or engaged by the provider, who provides services to another person on behalf of the provider, if the provider is accredited by the Board.