Section 57 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Steps Corporation takes to action complicated claims for cover

57 Steps Corporation takes to action complicated claims for cover (1) This section applies to a claim for cover— (a) for mental injury in the circumstances described in section 21 or 21B : (b) for personal injury caused by a work-related gradual process, disease, or infection: (c) for personal injury caused by treatment: (d) lodged outside the period stated in section 53 . (2) The Corporation must take the following steps as soon as practicable, and no later than 2 months, after the claim is lodged: (a) investigate the claim— (i) at its own expense; and (ii) to the extent reasonably necessary to enable it to take the following steps in this subsection; and (b) either— (i) make its decision on the claim and give notice of it under section 64 ; or (ii) decide that it cannot make its decision on the claim, or any other decision, without additional information, and tell the person of the extension, which must not exceed 2 months, that will be required. (3) The Corporation must take the following steps as soon as practicable, and no later than the expiry of the extension: (a) make a reasonable request to the person, or decide to make a request to another person, for the additional information; and (b) if the Corporation proposes to make a request to another person for the additional information, tell the person making the claim about the making of the request and its nature; and (c) make its decision on the claim and give notice of it under section 64 . (4) The Corporation and the person making the claim may agree to further extensions after the extension referred to in subsection (3) , and that subsection applies to any further extension, but the Corporation's decision on the claim must be made within 9 months of the claim being lodged. (5) If the Corporation finds that the claim is an uncomplicated claim under section 56 , that section applies as if the claim were lodged on the date the Corporation made that finding. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 65 Section 57(1)(a): amended, on 1 October 2008, by section 14 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46). Subsection (1)(c) was amended, as from 1 July 2005, by section 17 Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45) by substituting the word “ treatment ” for the words “ medical misadventure ” .