Section 372 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Individual rehabilitation plan
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372 Individual rehabilitation plan (1) An individual rehabilitation plan under any of the former Acts that was in effect immediately before 1 April 2002 continues to have effect on and after that date in the form it had at the close of 31 March 2002. (2) Subsection (3) applies if an element of the individual rehabilitation plan was agreed to be provided but was not in fact provided before 1 April 2002. (3) When this subsection applies, the following provisions of the relevant former Act continue to apply to the provision of the element of the individual rehabilitation plan that was agreed to be provided: (a) in the case of an element included in the plan by way of a modification to the plan, the provisions of the former Act that applied at the time of the modification: (b) in any other case, the provisions of the former Act that applied at the time the element was agreed. (4) Either the Corporation or a claimant may initiate a modification to a plan to which subsection (1) applies, but the modification must be made in accordance with clause 10 of Schedule 1 and the provisions of Part 4 and of Schedule 1 apply to any elements of the individual rehabilitation plan so modified. (5) This section does not apply to the social rehabilitation element of an individual rehabilitation programme prepared under the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance (Complex Personal Injury) Interim Regulations 1994. (6) Despite section 339 , the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance (Complex Personal Injury) Interim Regulations 1994 continue to apply to any social rehabilitation element of an individual rehabilitation programme prepared under those regulations. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 436
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