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Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998
47Worker’s injury management plan obligations
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47 Worker’s injury management plan obligations
> > (1) An injured worker must participate and co-operate in the establishment of an injury management plan required to be established for the worker.
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> > (2) The worker must comply with obligations imposed on the worker by or under an injury management plan for the worker.
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> > (3) The worker must, when requested to do so by the insurer, nominate as the worker’s treating doctor for the purposes of an injury management plan for the worker a medical practitioner who is prepared to participate in the development of, and in the arrangements under, the plan.
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> > (4) A medical practice can be nominated as treating doctor for the purposes of subsection (3). Such a nomination operates as a nomination of the members of the practice who treat the worker from time to time and a reference in this Chapter to the nominated treating doctor is a reference to those members of the practice.
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> > (5) The worker must authorise the worker’s nominated treating doctor to provide relevant information to the insurer or the employer for the purposes of an injury management plan for the worker.
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> > (6) An injury management plan must provide for the procedure for changing the worker’s nominated treating doctor.