Section 72 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Responsibilities of claimant who receives entitlement
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72 Responsibilities of claimant who receives entitlement (1) A claimant who receives any entitlement must, when reasonably required to do so by the Corporation,— (a) give the Corporation a certificate by a registered health professional or treatment provider that deals with the matters and contains the information that the Corporation requires: (b) give the Corporation any other relevant information that the Corporation requires: (c) authorise the Corporation to obtain medical and other records that are or may be relevant to the claim: (d) undergo assessment by a registered health professional specified by the Corporation, at the Corporation's expense: (e) undergo assessment, at the Corporation's expense: (f) co-operate with the Corporation in the development and implementation of an individual rehabilitation plan: (g) undergo assessment of present and likely capabilities for the purposes of rehabilitation, at the Corporation's expense: (h) participate in rehabilitation. (2) Every such claimant must give the Corporation a statement in writing about any matters relating to the claimant's entitlement, or continuing entitlement, to an entitlement that the Corporation specifies, and must do so whenever the Corporation requires such a statement. (3) If the Corporation requires the claimant to do so, the claimant must make the statement referred to in subsection (2) as a statutory declaration or in a form supplied by the Corporation. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 115
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