Section 31 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Ministerial advisory panel on work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

31 Ministerial advisory panel on work-related gradual process, disease, or infection (1) The Minister must appoint a person to convene and chair a ministerial advisory panel (the panel ) on work-related gradual process, disease, or infection. (2) The function of the panel is to provide independent and specialist advice to the Minister on any matter relating to work-related gradual process, disease, or infection. (3) The panel must keep under review and may advise the Minister on— (a) whether Schedule 2 should be amended: (b) how the Corporation deals with claims for cover for personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection: (c) the definition of work-related gradual process, disease, or infection. (4) Subsection (3) does not limit subsection (2) . (5) In appointing members to the panel, the Minister must— (a) have regard to the need to appoint persons who have recognised expertise (including medical expertise) in occupational health and safety; and (b) consult, as the Minister considers appropriate, bodies, organisations, and agencies that have an expertise or interest in matters that come within the panel's function. (6) The costs of, and incidental to, the administration and operation of the panel are payable by the Corporation out of the Work Account. Subsection (6) was amended, as from 1 April 2007, by section 13(1) Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8) by substituting “ Work Account ” for “ Employers' Account and the Self-Employed Work Account ” . See sections 14 to 16 of that Act for the transitional provisions.