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Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
77AProvision of certain services
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### 77A Provision of certain services
> *\[Section 77A Inserted by No. 16 of 1995, s. 53 \]*
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> > (1) [*\[Section 77A Subsection (1) substituted by No. 99 of 2000, s. 42, Applied:01 Jul 2001\]*](/view/html/inforce/2001-07-01/act-2000-099#GS42@Hpa@EN) [*\[Section 77A Subsection (1) substituted by No. 39 of 2017, s. 20, Applied:01 Jan 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-01-01/act-2017-039#GS20@EN) 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.
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> > (2) [*\[Section 77A Subsection (2) omitted by No. 99 of 2000, s. 42, Applied:01 Jul 2001\]*](/view/html/inforce/2001-07-01/act-2000-099#GS42@Hpb@EN) . . . . . . . .
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> > (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.
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> > (4) [*\[Section 77A Subsection (4) inserted by No. 85 of 2009, s. 27, Applied:01 Jul 2010\]*](/view/html/inforce/2010-07-01/act-2009-085#GS27@EN) 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.
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> > (5) [*\[Section 77A Subsection (5) inserted by No. 85 of 2009, s. 27, Applied:01 Jul 2010\]*](/view/html/inforce/2010-07-01/act-2009-085#GS27@EN) [Subsection (4)](#GS77A@Gs4@EN) 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.